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French authorities launched a hate crime investigation after a viral video showed a man harassing a young Jewish boy at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in June.The Bobigny prosecutor's office confirmed the probe into the incident where an individual with a British accent threatened the child while Yonathan Arfi condemned the rising climate of antisemitism.
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