Several associations, including the Crif, filed a complaint after receiving anti-Semitic missiles signed “The Black Hand”. An investigation has been opened.
This is a case taken “very seriously” by the investigators of the Paris judicial police and the judicial authorities. According to our information, an investigation was opened, on June 29, by the parquet of Paris for facts of “threats of crime because of the belonging to a religion”. This investigation was triggered after complaints lodged in Parisian police stations by the representatives of the United Jewish Social Fund and the Jewish Consistorial Association of Paris. According to our information, these associations were recipients of identical letters, dated May 10, but posted June 18 in the Val-d’Oise, clearly anti-Semitic content and particularly threatening. “In these typewritten letters, the mysterious author (s) refers to the murder of 85-year-old Mireille Knoll, who was killed at her home on 23 March in the 11th arrondissement of Paris,” a source close to the case said. The editors of these missives use the following terms in particular: Ladies and Gentlemen, you bitterly mourn the death of an old Jew murdered for her money, we think you pay little for the number of crimes you commit every day . Enjoy it, because the day of punishment will come. ”
“Black hand”
In addition to the United Jewish Social Fund and the Jewish Consistorial Association of Paris, the Union of Jewish Students in France, the Jewish Children’s Protection Fund of Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, the Paris Jewish Social Action Committee , the synagogue of Saint-Cloud and the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif) were also recipients of the same missive, initialed by a mysterious “black hand”. The investigators of the crime control unit against the person (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police have been tasked to trace the trail of the authors of these threatening letters. “Everything is being done to identify those who are hiding behind this signature of The Black Hand,” the source continues. Multiple investigations are in progress. ”
Sources : http://www.lepoint.fr.