Eight people were arrested at their home this Monday, November 13 around 6 a.m., almost two weeks after the video filmed in the Paris metro in which antisemitic songs were chanted, BFMTV learned.
All of the people arrested, of French nationality, are minors, according to our information. One of them is known to the courts for shoplifting. The teenagers are being questioned by the railway network brigade, according to a judicial source at BFMTV. None of them being domiciled in Paris, the Bobigny and Nanterre public prosecutor’s offices will be competent to make criminal decisions.
In this video published on social networks, several Paris metro passengers made anti-Semitic remarks. Seized by the Paris police headquarters, the prosecution opened an investigation to try to identify the authors of these comments.
On BFMTV, the author of the video returned to the facts and indicated that the group “targeted a lot of communities”. “They started singing songs in groups against the police, against the LGBT community and also against France and finally against the Jewish people,” she explains.
According to her, the events lasted “a good ten minutes” before a passenger intervened. “A woman intervened saying “no, you’re not talking about Jews,” explains the author. But since it was a woman and there were at least twenty of them, they ended up not listening to her and laughing. of her.”
The Paris public prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation to identify and prosecute the authors of comments repressed by law, and likely to have different qualifications depending on their content. It had been entrusted to the Regional Transport Service (SRT).
