A garden in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, dedicated to two victims of horrific antisemitic murders was defaced with a swastika.
The memorial garden in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, inaugurated in November 2022, dedicated to Sarah Halimi and Mireille Knoll, was defaced with a swastika, reports the JNS.
The municipality quickly removed the antisemitic tag and made the area’s video surveillance recordings available to investigators.
City Major Jacques Martin condemned the vandalism, stressing that he is determined not to let such behaviour take root in his city and that hatred will not be tolerated.
He affirmed the town’s determination to preserve the memory of Sarah Halimi and Mireille Knoll, refusing to see them „murdered a second time.”
Sarah Halimi, born in Nogent-sur-Marne in November 1951, was beaten to death and thrown out of the window in her Paris apartment at the age of sixty-five in 2017. The perpetrator was her neighbour, crying „Allah Akbar” during his murderous actions („God is the greatest” in Arabic).
When in 2021, the French Supreme Court ruled that Halimi’s murderer was criminally irresponsible, twenty-five thousand people gathered across France to protest the lack of a trial following the murder.
Mireille Knoll was found stabbed to death in her partly burnt-down Paris apartment in 2018. The two killers of the 85-year-old elderly Holocaust survivor were convicted in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Photo credit: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 via JNS
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