4 months later , in July 2012 , a French Jewish teenager wearing a " distinctive religious symbol " was the victim of a violent antisemitic attack on a train travelling between Toulouse and Lyon . The teen was first verbally harassed and later beaten up by two assailants . Richard Prasquier from the French Jewish umbrella group , CRIF , called the attack " another development in the worrying trend of anti-Semitism in our country . " Another incident in July 2012 dealt with the vandalism of the synagogue of Noisy-le-Grand of the Seine-Saint-Denis district in Paris . The synagogue was vandalized three times in a ten-day period . Prayer books and shawls were thrown on the floor , windows were shattered , drawers were ransacked , and walls , tables , clocks , and floors were vandalized . The authorities were alerted of the incidents by the Bureau National de Vigilance Contre L'Antisémtisme ( BNVCA ) , a French antisemitism watchdog group , which called for more measures to be taken to prevent future hate crimes . BNVCA President Sammy Ghozlan stated that , " Despite the measures taken , things persist , and I think that we need additional legislation , because the Jewish community is annoyed . " In August 2012 , Abraham Cooper , the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , met French Interior Minister Manuel Valls and reported that antisemitic attacks against French Jews increased by 40 % since Merah 's shooting spree in Toulouse . Cooper pressed Valls to take extra measures to secure the safety of French Jews , as well as to discuss strategies to foil an increasing trend of lone-wolf terrorists on the Internet
Merah 's shooting spree
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Antisemitism