“All the Jews in France have become targets for attack,” the father of a young Jewish man brutally attacked in Lyon said Tuesday, speaking to Maariv. Ten local youths surrounded three Jewish young men on Saturday and beat them with a hammer and an iron bar, wounding two.
The father said his son is in shock following the traumatic event, and expressed concern that the incident may interfere with the young man’s wedding, which was scheduled for next Sunday. The family’s trauma has been particularly strong due to ties to the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse, where a Muslim attacker recently murdered a local rabbi, his two sons, and an eight-year-old girl.