The San Francisco Police Department and FBI are investigating a possible hate crime at a school in the city’s Hayes Valley neighborhood. The French American worldwide School is an independent bilingual French-English school that serves pre-kindergartners through 12th-graders, though the high school itself is run with slightly different requirements.
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A symbol was found spray-painted on a wall at the playground on Hickory Street, just north of the Oak Street campus.
A school employee confirmed vandalism at the school but referred all questions to spokesman Robert Movradinov, who could not be reached immediately for comment.
The vandal, or vandals, hit the wall of the playground sometime overnight Monday, spray painting a star and crescent surrounded by an eight-pointed star with the number seven in the middle, said San Francisco police Capt. Greg McEachern.
The symbol appears to be affiliated with the “Five-Percent Nation”, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam founded in NY and often cited in hip-hop lyrics.
The SFPD Special Investigation Division is working to determine if the graffiti it amounts to a hate crime. 23 percent of those students are French nationals.
San Francisco police are investigating reports of vandalism at the French American worldwide School in San Francisco.
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The school’s playground was closed to students while police investigated. A premature local media report falsely identified the vandalism as “ISIS graffiti”.
