[Jpost] The French protester who verbally abused French philosopher Alain Finkielraut a week ago was tossed in the clinkBook 'im, Mahmoud!
by Police and is expected to face the court on May 22, Algemeiner reported on Friday night.
The man, known as "Benjamin" and reported by French media to be a 36-year-old married father of five who works as a salesman, shouted at the elderly Finkielraut that "La Belle France is ours" and called him a "Zionist shi*t."
The man was part of a 'Yellow Vests" group who screamed at Finkielraut that he is a "dirty Jew," that he's "going to die" and he's "going to hell."
The man arrested claimed to have spoken these things in anger of comments Finkielraut made about "The Paleostinians" and the "Children of Gazoo."
The man was reportedly arrested in 2004 for attacking a police officer and to be linked to radical pro-Paleostinian Islamist groups who visited Leb in 2014.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the attack, saying, "The antisemitic insults to which [Finkielkraut] has been subjected to are the absolute opposite of who we are and what makes us a great nation. We will not tolerate them."