French police are questioning the manager of a southern France activity park after the facility denied entry to a group of 150 young Israeli tourists, amid rising global outrage over the country's ongoing genocide and blockade on Gaza, which led to a famine.
The manager of the park in Porte-Puymorens in the western Pyrenees was detained on Thursday for "discrimination based on religion" over the incident the same day, prosecutors in the nearby city of Perpignan told AFP.
"This is not our conception of the Republic, this is not our conception of human dignity," Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau told BFMTV, describing the incident as "serious."
The man had said that he refused access to his establishment due to 'personal convictions,'" the prosecutors said.
The group of 150 Israeli holidaymakers, all minors, aged 8 to 16, and on holiday in Spain, were refused entry "even though a reservation had been made long in advance," the prosecutors said.
