Swastikas were discovered on Thursday on the frontages and windows of a dozen kosher stores in Paris, the Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) announced.

�We see it as a new demonstration of anti-Semitic hatred,� the union said.

A police source said four nazi swastikas were traced with a black marker on two shops, on the wall of a Jewish school and on a nearby building of the Boulevard Voltaire, in Paris�s 11th district.

“I make a point of expressing my emotion and my indignation following the discovery of swastikas on frontages of the Voltaire boulevard”, said the city�s mayor Bertrand Delanoe, in an official statement.

“Such acts, which recall the darkest hours of our history, should not remain unpunished. In the name of Paris, I repeat my determination to fight without a break against anti-semitism, and to defend the values of tolerance and of respect which found the identity of our City,” he added.

(Source: EJP / AFP)