According to the verdict, the attacker struck Shapira with his fist and kicked him in the face, leaving the Jewish student with a complex facial fracture and a brain hemorrhage.
The chief rabbi of Orléans, Rabbi Arié Engelberg, was violently beaten, kicked, and even bitten on the shoulder while walking home from synagogue with his nine-year-old son, before the attacker fled after being confronted by a passerby.