PARIS — Officials in France said they are investigating a possible Russian link to a spate of potentially antisemitic graffiti that appeared on buildings in Paris at the end of last month.
Prosecutors in the French capital said in a statement Tuesday that it was possible that the potential hate crime was “carried out at the request of a person living abroad.” The suspects spoke Russian, prosecutors said.
The investigation is focused on dozens of blue Stars of David that were graffitied onto buildings in Paris and its suburbs.
When the stars first appeared, they were widely seen as a potential antisemitic hate crime. Several government officials, including the interior minister, said the graffiti was antisemitic. Prosecutors said they were undertaking “an investigation into the offense of degradation aggravated by the fact that it was committed because of origin or religion.”
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