“They pushed him to the ground and struck him. I don’t know how they identified him as Jewish since he wasn’t wearing any distinctive sign,” said Créteil’s Jewish community leader Albert Elharrar, who met the victim.
“The victim was brave enough to hit one of his aggressors back which allowed him to try to escape, but they caught him,” said Elharrar.
The attackers hit the victim from behind while he was returning home from work.
Mr Elharrar said that the area where the assault took place, near to Créteil’s court house, “is full of petty criminals who try to rob people.”