More than 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded in France since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Oct 7, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said amid growing tensions.

“There have been 1,518 anti-Semitic acts or remarks”, Darmanin told broadcaster Europe 1 in an interview.

This was a more than three-fold increase compared to the whole of 2022, when 436 anti-Semitic acts or remarks were recorded.

“These are mainly tags and insults, but there are also assaults and injuries”, Darmanin added.

Those acts resulted in 571 arrests, the ministry told AFP.