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Swastikas Deface Historic Drancy Camp Amid Declining Anti-Semitism

2/27/2026

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Two swastikas were spray-painted on buildings in a Paris suburb that housed the Drancy internment camp, the main departure point for about 63,000 Jews from August 1941 to August 1944.
Gokhan Unver, a mayoral candidate from France Unbowed, condemned the vandalism as serious given the camp's history.
France recorded 886 anti-Semitic acts from January through August 2025, a 20% decline from the prior year.

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Two swastikas were spray-painted on buildings in a Paris suburb that housed the Drancy internment camp, the main departure point for about 63,000 Jews from August 1941 to August 1944.
Gokhan Unver, a mayoral candidate from France Unbowed, condemned the vandalism as serious given the camp's history.
France recorded 886 anti-Semitic acts from January through August 2025, a 20% decline from the prior year.