Comedian Marie s'infiltre claims to have been "chastised" from a Marseille bar because she was "Jewish"

"Have I been chased away?" It was with these words on her Instagram account, this Monday, July 28, that Marie s'infiltre recounted what she experienced in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), the day before.

The comedian explains that she was sitting on the terrace of a café in the Old Port when she started hearing her name several times. She smiles, but little by little she feels that people are not saying her name to greet her, but to "insult" her.

"I must be paranoid," she thinks then.

She places her order anyway, but she hears the shouting getting louder and louder: "Long live the struggle of the Palestinian people." For the comedian, this slogan is "legitimate, libertarian," however, she feels that it is addressed to her in a "hostile and threatening" manner.

"We shout too loudly, we stamp our feet, and the laughter is mocking. I immediately sense that it's very serious," she says.

She decides to approach the group of three people who are shouting at her. She replies: "Of course, long live the struggle of the Palestinian people, but why are you shouting it to me right now?"

According to her, the people they are addressing are only there "to fight." "They are only fueled by hatred, and they have chosen me as their enemy," she adds. Marie infiltrates then asks them if this "demo" is intended for her. Only one of these people admits it.

But looking at them more closely, she senses that things could get ugly. So she decides to leave the cafe.

"So I leave to breathe and to get away from stupidity and hatred. So I leave, even though I had promised myself I would never leave. I walk on the Old Port, in shock. Was it an assault?" she wonders.

Fear of being recognized as Jewish, fear of not being safe... The comedian confesses several of her fears. "And then I tell myself that it's not a big deal, I shouldn't come back too much. I'm not welcome anymore, too bad," she says, at first.

She then joins some friends on Cours Julien and tells them about the scene she has just experienced. However, she is "too lazy" to explain "how serious it is," "that this incident can be associated with a victim narrative." "In short, too lazy, once again, being Jewish (...) to tell yourself that things will get better when they get worse, too lazy to explain, to justify, to defend yourself," she continues in her post.

But the comedian doesn't want to stop there. "Tomorrow morning, even if it's too late, I'll go get my coffee right here. And I make this promise to myself: whatever happens in Gaza, Israel, China, Afghanistan, Mali, or Tataouine—I mean whatever happens—no one will chase me out of a cafe in France."