Shock in Paris: Kosher Restaurant Vandalsized With Corrosive Acid

By FrumNews.com

The Kokoriko restaurant in Paris was vandalized last week in an anti-Semitic attack. The attackers doused and sprayed acid throughout the kosher restaurant overnight.

Attackers forced the door open and sprayed corrosive acid across both floors, destroying the interior—including tables, counters, and furnishings, and forcing its closure.

Staff at the Kosher restaurant in the large Jewish community in Paris’s 17th arrondissement immediately alerted authorities. In response, the Paris Fire Brigade (BSPP) sent its nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical unit to the scene. Technicians from the Central Laboratory of the Police Prefecture examined the substance to determine its composition.

Damage to the establishment is estimated to be about $176,000.

The kosher restaurant Kokoriko in Paris was vandalized with acid.

Attackers forced the door open and sprayed corrosive acid across both floors, destroying the interior, including tables, counters, and furnishings, and forcing its closure.

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— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) February 23, 2026

French prosecutors are treating the attack as a hate crime investigation, “into damage to property carried out using a means considered dangerous to people, with the act treated as motivated by race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Under French law, that charge carries a potential sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of €150,000.

This is the third time this restaurant has been attacked, and the second by acid. However, the previous attack was “closed without further action due to the lack of identification of the perpetrators,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said, Le Parisien reported.

The attack comes as the overall tally for anti-Semitic attacks rose to 1,320 incidents — which is a little over half of all hate crimes recorded in France — in 2025.

Attacks on kosher establishments in France are not new and have been widely reported; among them are two attacks that are well known in recent history:

• In 2016, a jihadist terrorist murdered four Jews at a kosher supermarket in Paris on one Erev Shabbos.
• In 1982, Palestinian terrorists and their collaborators murdered six people in a bombing at the Chez Jo Goldenberg kosher restaurant on Rue des Rosiers in the Marais district of Paris.