Anti-Semitic signs have appeared in several demonstrations against the health pass in France.

An investigation for “incitement to racial hatred” was opened concerning an anti-Semitic sign brandished Saturday during a demonstration against the sanitary pass in the city of Besançon, in eastern France.

The International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) filed a complaint at the city’s police by producing a photo of the anti-Semitic sign brandished by a protester whose face cannot be seen.

On the sign, the sentence “The genocide of the Goyim” (non-Jews) was written on the background of the image of a nurse holding a syringe.

An investigation was launched to “Incitement to hatred or violence on grounds of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion by word, writing or image”.

The Licra’s local representative believes that “the health crisis we are going through generates behaviors some of which, knowingly, endanger republican cohesion by posting and openly expressing anti-Semitic remarks, using the oldest and filthy accusations against the Jews”.

Anti-Semitic signs have appeared in several demonstrations against the health pass. In the city of Metz, earlier this month, a woman, who held an antisemitic sign, was arrested by police.

A photo posted on social networks showed the young woman holding up the offending sign, on which are written the names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, most of whom are Jewish.

On the sign, the names were framed by the slogan “But who?’ and the word ”Traitors.’’