A Jewish boy said he was assaulted in front of a synagogue in Lyon, France, on Friday.

The incident, which prompted vocal condemnations by the city’s mayor, occurred amid a wave of antisemitic incidents in France, one that has featured prominently in that country’s diplomatic tensions with Israel over the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Prosecutors opened an investigation into an alleged antisemitic assault on the 14-year-old boy outside a synagogue in Lyon, the Libération newspaper reported.

According to the boy’s father, the teenager was walking home alone on Friday when a man in his 20s approached him and asked if he smoked. The boy replied that he didn’t, and the man allegedly hurled antisemitic insults at him before kicking him in the hip. The victim suffered injuries requiring tw

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