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| Judenfrei: Resort manager arrested in S. France for religious discrimination after denying entry to Israeli youth, Israeli family hospitalized after attack in Dutch amusement park after ‘call for action’ |
| 2025-08-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] The manager of a leisure resort in the south of France has been arrested after refusing to allow entry to a group of Israeli youth due to his “personal beliefs,” French media reports. French newspaper Ouest-France reports that the tour group of some 150 Israeli youth, ages 8 to 16, had made a reservation at the leisure resort well in advance, without incident. But when they arrived at the center, located in Porté-Puymorens, in the southern Pyrénées-Orientales region, the 52-year-old manager turned them away, citing his “personal beliefs” as his reason for doing so. The incident was reported to the police, who, according to the prosecutor’s office, detained him on suspicion of “discrimination on the basis of religion in the context of the offer or provision of goods or services.” According to Ouest-France, the maximum sentence for this charge, if found guilty, is three years’ imprisonment. Israeli family attacked at Dutch resort; police: nationality not cause of incident [IsraelTimes] A family of Israeli tourists was attacked at a holiday park in the Netherlands Thursday evening, days after local anti-Israel groups posted videos online of Israeli tourists at another park and “called for action against them,” Israel’s embassy in The Hague said Friday, though local police reportedly says the victims’ nationality was not the cause for the attack. Two victims of the attack at Center Parcs De Kempervennen, near Eindhoven, required hospitalization, and one suspect was detained, the embassy said in a Dutch-language statement, adding that “it is assumed that multiple suspects were involved.” The embassy, whose building was defaced last week, added that this is the latest in a series of attacks on Israelis visiting the Netherlands.. Dutch media identified the hospitalized Israelis as a 37- and 41-year-old, one of whom suffered a head wound, and the detained suspect as a 15-year-old boy. According to local newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad, the violence took place amid a paintball game between the Israeli tourists and another group, and police said the Israelis’ nationality was not the reason for the attack. However, the outlet said “discriminatory and threatening slogans were shouted during the altercation,” and quoted a Dutch Jewish community group that was in contact with the victims as saying they were deliberately attacked because they were Israeli. Days before the attack, several Dutch activists and groups posted videos of Israeli tourists at a different Center Parcs resort, and called on their followers to “take action” against “citizens of the Zionist Entity.”
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