Jewish woman in Lyon stabbed and swastika found graffitied to her home

Police were hunting for a man who stabbed and wounded a Jewish woman in the French city of Lyon on Saturday, according to police and the city's mayor. A swastika was found graffitied to her home.

"Such an act of violence is unthinkable. I offer all my support to the victim and her relatives," Gregory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

A police spokesperson said he could not confirm whether it was being treated as an anti-Semitic hate crime attack.

Police forces around the world have reported an uptick in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents since the war began on 7 October.