Signs marking the newly inaugurated Ben-Gurion esplanade in Paris have disappeared.
The city filed an official complaint with police after the signs were noticed missing last week.
Pro-Palestinian protesters and representatives of France’s Communist Party led a campaign to prevent Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanöe from honoring the Israeli founder.
Despite street protests, Delanöe went through with the renaming of the central Paris square on April 15, in the presence of Israeli President Shimon Peres. On the margins of the event, protesters called Delanöe an “accomplice” to “Israeli assassins,” according to the French news agency AFP.
An online video showing the place where the new street signs should have been was posted on the website of a group that protested the city’s initiative, but no one has claimed responsibility for the apparent theft, according to French reports. — jta