French National Assembly member Romain Ashkenazi said the vehicle belonged to his sister and her husband.
“My younger sister and her husband discovered a swastika carved into the hood of their car, which was parked outside their home in Soisy, where they are raising their 5-year-old daughter,” Ashkenazi wrote. “It is chilling, frightening and outrageous. A police complaint has been filed, and I thank the authorities for working to identify those responsible.”
Ashkenazi added: “Acts of hatred and racist and antisemitic statements are becoming increasingly common in our country.” He said the act runs counter to the values of France.
“These ideas must be fought through education, and these acts must be punished according to the law,” Ashkenazi wrote.
The incident prompted a wave of reactions.
France’s minister for gender equality and the fight against discrimination, Aurore Bergé, responded to Ashkenazi by writing: “We must not give up even a single inch of the republic’s values. Together, we will succeed. The fight against antisemitism is the fight of the entire republic.”
Bernard Cazeneuve, who served as France’s prime minister about a decade ago, wrote: “You and your family have my full support, Romain, in the face of this despicable act. Antisemitism is a scourge.”
Pierre Jouvet, a member of the European Parliament, added: “These antisemitic acts are far too numerous, and every one of them must be condemned.”
A French anti-antisemitism organization said: “We thought the darkest days of France in the 1930s were already behind us.”