Gilles-William Goldnadel, a former member of the CRIF executive board of French Jewry and a prominent lawyer who’s represented many victims of antisemitic hate crimes, told the Radio J station on Monday: “Unfortunately, I can’t say I’m astonished. Hate had been worked up to a fever pitch, notably by the France Unbowed (far-left) party, tied to the Islamist movement, until it has been infused, and this is the infusion.”