Ankara: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Saturday denounced the recent attack by an Israeli man on a nun in Jerusalem: Barrot on US social media platform X described the attack as "odious."

According to Anadolu Agency, Barrot stated, "The punishment must be exemplary so that the anti-Christian acts multiplying in the Holy Land come to an end-acts that France, committed to its historic mission of protecting Catholic communities and holy sites, cannot under any circumstances tolerate."

Barrot's remarks came after reports that a 36-year-old Israeli man was arrested after assaulting a French nun in East Jerusalem, according to Israeli police, in an attack they called "racially motivated."