By COLlive reporter
A chassidic Chabad Jewish man was stabbed by three people claiming to be supporters of the Islamic State terror organization.
Tzion Saadon, a history teacher at a Jewish school in the southern French city of Marseille, was tabbed on Wednesday evening.
According to reports, the attackers approached the teacher, asked if he was Jewish and then stabbed him. They also shouted anti-Semitic obscenities.
French police official Laurent Nunez said the 56-year-old victim’s life is not in danger.
It comes as France is on heightened alert after last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris in which 129 people were killed and over 350 others hurt.
The atrocity, which was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, was the worst in French history.
Please say Tehillim for Tzion ben Luisa.
In October, a rabbi and two Jewish worshipers were stabbed outside a synagogue in Marseilles following Shabbat prayers. The knife-wielding assailant could be heard shouting anti-Semitic slurs at the time of the assault, Times of Israel noted.
There have been a series of attacks on Jews in France in recent years, including the shooting at a kosher supermarket in Paris in January, in which four people were killed. In March 2012, a teacher and three children were shot dead in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Chas veshalom, I did not mean that your father didn’t try to defend himself, but the fact that you read it that way means I have to ask mechilah — please forgive me. My intention with my comment was only to encourage COL readers to get self-defense training. ALL: It’s important to know the laws where you live. I am in Los Angeles County. It is legal to own a gun for self-defense in one’s home, but concealed carry licenses are only given to movie stars and the like. However, it is B”H legal here to be armed in your… Read more »
France has incredibly strict gun control laws, only the police, military, and terrorists have guns.
buy a pistol
First of all,
i would like to thank all of you for your thoughts and tehilim for my father!!!
Second of all, Talking to #9,
My father is well aware of defending himself but what everyone has to understand is that these beasts never ever ever come by themselves!!! They are like sharks who attacks in group, so unless you are damn good aty martial arts, there is barely any chance!!
For posting his name so we can say Tehillim!
First of all, refuah sheleimah to Tzion ben Luisa. Secondly, the gemara teaches us, if someone is coming to kill you, rise up and kill him first, and this includes also if the would-be assailant is coming to kill or rape someone else. So just like in order to fulfill the mitzvah of separating challah we first have to learn to bake bread, in order to fulfill the mitzvah of self-defense every Jew should be learning some form of self-defense. If private ownership of firearms is not banned where you live, acquire a firearm and get training to use it.… Read more »
Refuah Shleyma. Get out of France. Go to Tzfat. Whatever happens, we should at least try to have Eretz Yisroel save us from this escalating evil and ridiculous wickedness in our lives. Go now. Israel now.
enough is enough, why are you taking so long, your children are waiting Moshiach
Moshiach please come this second. Thanks
Israel Italy Crown Heights and now France my goodness there so many stabbings going on these days its not good but its only one thing we need to do is Daven to Heshem Ad mosai do we have to wait we want Moshiach now we don’t want to wait now
we should only hear good news, may hashem keep all his children safe wherever they may be
refuah shleima bkorov!
No excuse for this much hate to be in ones heart. So sad may the teacher & students RIP.
Refuah Shleimah!!!!
Refuah Shelaimah Tzion ben luisa