The Carrefour hypermarket chain has been particularly targeted by these actions “carried out by about twenty activists from the extreme left”, according to government spokesman Luc Chatel, who considered them “shocking” and “absolutely unacceptable” in his opinion. The Junior Minister added: “It isn’t a question of physical violence, but rather a form of symbolic violence and intimidation. In these matters, the borderline between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is often a very fine one.”