The public prosecutor in Grenoble has opened a criminal investigation, assigned to the Gendarmerie (French national police), following the viral spread of a video filmed at the Les Deux Alpes ski station in the Isère department.
The footage shows a woman standing at a bar in the resort calmly making antisemitic statements directed explicitly at the Jewish community.
According to the Orthodox Jewish man's account in an interview with a French network, he arrived at the location with his family and requested to purchase drinks. However, the woman shouted at him: "One drink, one spot," preventing his family from sitting at the venue. When he approached her, she told him: "You Jews are simply too many and it annoys people."
The woman filmed in the video has since been located by security forces, brought in for questioning by investigators, and admitted to making the statements. During her interrogation, she provided investigators with her version of the context and circumstances in which the words were spoken.
The footage also drew furious responses from French political leadership. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau sharply condemned the remarks and made clear that such an attack "has no place in our republic," while Minister Aurore Bergé called for immediate action to file an official report on the matter with the public prosecutor.
Regarding the claim that community members are "too many," demographic data presents an entirely different picture of the Jewish population's proportion. Approximately 438,500 Jews currently live in France, representing less than 0.7 percent of the country's total population.
Globally, there are approximately 15.8 million Jews, constituting only about 0.2 percent of the world's population. Despite more than eight decades having passed, the size of the global Jewish population remains lower than it was in 1939, when approximately 16.6 million Jews were recorded on the eve of the Holocaust.
