Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, while a swastika was found graffitied at her home, police and the city's mayor said.
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"Such an act of violence is unthinkable. I offer all my support to the victim and her relatives," said Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet on the social media platform X.
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A spokesman for the national police gave no further details about the suspect and said he could not confirm whether police were treating the attack as an antisemitic hate crime.
Police in countries around the world have reported a surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic offenses in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
