A French influencer who mocked the alleged murder of an Israeli baby during the Hamas attack in Israel was arrested and taken into police custody on Thursday, Paris prosecutors said.
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An Israeli rescuer said that Hamas members placed a baby in an oven during the bloody attack on Israeli soil on October 7, but Israeli authorities have not confirmed this version.
“Every time I come across the story of the baby being put in the oven, I wonder if they added salt, pepper or thyme. What did they bring him back for? And how was the support?” says the young woman in French in this video published last week on social networks.
UNBEARABLE | “What seasoning for this Israeli baby leg with ketchup sauce? Pepper, salt, thyme?”
We strongly condemn the vile negationist and anti-Semitic statements made by Warda Anwar, alias Haneia Nakei, on social networks.
In… pic.twitter.com/b3hsnb8Qdy
— Israeli Embassy in France (@IsraelenFrance) November 3, 2023
The French woman was taken into police custody for her advocacy of terrorism. A police source said she was arrested on Thursday.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced last Friday that he had taken legal action following the publication.
The French government announced that anti-Semitic incidents in the country had “exploded” since October 7, the start of the war between Hamas and Israel, caused by the massacres carried out by the Islamist movement, in which more than 1,400 people were killed.
In particular, Stars of David were placed on several buildings in Paris. And a teenager was taken into custody on Wednesday after attacking a religious Jew in the Paris subway.
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