Mother, baby train attack in doubt

[MrPrax]

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. <snip>

"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.

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[Scairp]

1. Is this Murdoch's paper?

The Courier Mail?

[Flagg]

2. French woman admits she lied about anti-semitic attack: police

French woman admits she lied about anti-semitic attack: police



FRENCH WOMAN ADMITS SHE LIED ABOUT ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK: POLICE

Received Tuesday, 13 July 2004 17:41:00 GMT
PARIS, July 13 (AFP) - A young French woman who claimed she had been the victim last week of a vicious anti-Semitic attack on a Paris suburban train admitted Tuesday that she had lied, police said.
The 23-year-old woman had initially told police that on Friday six youths had slashed her clothes, drawn swastikas on her stomach and flipped over her baby carriage with her 13-month-old child inside after mistaking her for a Jew.
On Tuesday, she first changed her story to say that she had been assaulted outside the train, but finally admitted that she had invented the entire incident.
The woman said she had drawn the swastikas on her own stomach with the help of her boyfriend, according to police.
The woman has been placed in preventive detention for "falsely reporting a crime", state prosecutor Xavier Salvat told AFP. Her boyfriend has also been detained, police said.

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[tom_paine]

4. Oh God, why would she make something like that up?

(I am NOT trying to say she didn;t...right now it clearly looks bad, but question her motivations as in 'why would nayone do something so awful?')

So sad if it's true and she made this up. Enough craziness in the world without having to make new stuff up.

[DS1]

3. Umm, so they get off at six different stops. Duh.

Even the most amateur of criminals would have known this :eyes:

[Moderator]

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