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Non-Jewish Paris woman suffers FAKE anti-Semitic attack
Read about it in the NY Daily News today somewhere in the back of the paper:
Doubts as French sift swastika attack
| quote: | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS - Doubts surfaced yesterday in French media reports about a young mother's claim she had been attacked and robbed on a suburban train by young men who then scrawled swastikas on her stomach.
Nevertheless, police patrolled trains and studied video from surveillance cameras, trying to track the six men who allegedly attacked the 23-year-old woman. She told police she was robbed by a knife-wielding gang while riding a train with her infant Friday morning and was mistreated after being mistaken for a Jew. None of some 20 witnesses came to her aid, she told police.
Investigators trying to find the culprits say they have almost no clues. Surveillance cameras at the station where the attackers reportedly left the train showed no young men running away, and no witnesses have come forward despite repeated calls from officials and promises of anonymity.
Both France-Info radio and the television station LCI reported that the young woman had filed several complaints about violence and aggressive treatment in the past. Neither news outlet provided sources, but LCI said the woman had filed six such complaints. That information could not be immediately confirmed.
"It is absolutely necessary to have a certitude before speaking," said Paris Police Chief Jean-Paul Proust, when asked about the case on France-2 television. "I have no certitude."
Despite the doubts, officials continued to issue statements of shock and calls to fight anti-Semitism and passiveness by bystanders. Deputy Minister for Victims' Rights Nicole Guedj met with the young mother, then asked witnesses to step forward, particularly a young man said to have been seated near the mother.
France was stunned by news of the attack, which emerged over the weekend. The woman told police that the men, described as North Africans, cut off locks of her hair, opened her shirt with their knives and used markers to draw three swastikas on her stomach.
Originally published on July 13, 2004
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'Swastika attack' woman detained
| quote: | Police in France have detained a woman who alleged she had been the subject of a shocking anti-Semitic attack.
The move came after no evidence was found to corroborate her story four days after the alleged assault on a train in the suburbs of Paris.
The 23-year-old woman said six men cut her clothes and drew swastikas on her body, accusing her of being Jewish.
Police say there are trying to clarify some inaccuracies in the account of the woman who has not been named.
According to French media reports - citing unnamed police sources - the woman subsequently admitted having made the story up.
The case has sparked widespread condemnation amid concern that racist and anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in France.
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Mother, baby train attack in doubt
| quote: | Mother, baby train attack in doubt
From correspondents in Paris
13jul04
DOUBTS arose today over an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a mother and her baby on a Paris suburban train.
The alleged attack, in which the woman said a gang of six youths cut her clothes and drew swastikas on her body, has drawn fierce condemnation from politicians, civil rights groups and Jewish associations.
National newspapers gave it front-page prominence under such headlines as "The Train of Hate" and "Vile and Stupid".
But police sources today said they were puzzled by "contradictions" that had emerged since the alleged incident on Friday and the lack of confirming evidence.
The woman said the alleged attackers had believed her to be Jewish when they found out she lived in Paris' upper-class 16th arrondissement, and had tipped over the baby carriage holding her 13-month-old child.
"Only Jews live in the 16th district," one of the attackers was quoted by the press as saying.
But investigators said closed-circuit cameras at the station where the 23-year-old woman said the attackers had alighted did not reveal the presence of six youths.
Police were continuing to check all video-surveillance cameras along the line, and officers rode the trains in search of witnesses.
Railway personnel at the ticket office where the woman said she reported the affair could remember nothing about it, the investigators said.
Frank Carabin, a representative of a police officer's union, said it was curious that no witnesses had come forward, and added that there were inconsistencies in the woman's statement.
"The inquiry is continuing, but with uncertainties," he said.
Another police union official, Bruno Beschizza, said, "Contradictions have appeared. There are not enough elements of proof."
A 28-year-old man said he had seen the woman on the platform of the station where she said she boarded the train before the attack. He said her clothes were torn and she was crying. "I asked her if she wanted help, and she said no," the man said.
The woman, identified only as Marie L. spent more than an hour with the secretary of state for victim's rights, Nicole Guedj. She left in a car with darkened windows without giving comment to the media.
Later, politicians appeared to be backing away from the story.
"I hope there's not going to be too much doubt about this affair," the president of the Ile-de-France region whispered to Guedj in an aside recorded and broadcast by France 2 television.
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Last edited by ogvh5150 on Jul-13-2004 at 21:22
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