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

[Flagg]

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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[LittleApple81]

1. We don't need nuts to inflame feelings, do we? Why do they always crawl

out to make situations worse?

[MountainLaurel]

2. What was she thinking?

Trying to incite violence against Muslim immigrants? 'Cause the situation in France isn't tense enough? Is that reverse terrorism?

What a fuckwad -- hope she is severely punished. Maybe she could do a few years of community service in community center for immigrants.

[daleo]

7. Earlier story said she wasn't Jewish. Probably not Muslim either.

So, I would guess just someone who is quite mentally unbalanced. I hope so anyway.

On edit - What I mean is, better that it be a mentally unbalanced individual doing this for her own irrational reasons, rather than a political attempt to inflame tensions either way.

[oldcoot]

9. I hope that a psychologist interviews her

If she is doing this for attention, I would be worried about the safety of her child. After all, she was willing to claim that these individuals flipped over her baby carriage with her 13-month-old child inside. What will she do next time to get attention?

[phillybri]

3. Andrew Sullivan was all over France for this...

I wonder what he'll say now...

[CaTeacher]

4. I feel sickened

this is pathetic

[Flagg]

5. You can bet the farm the anti-French media will never report the truth

about this nutcase

[Forkboy]

8. So are people in I/P on a regular basis

[bobbieinok]

13. so was Savage

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[maggrwaggr]

10. that's weird. I suspected this was fake from the get-go

I don't know why, just had a very strong intuition it was fabricated.

Must have smelled bad somehow.

[Logansquare]

11. Me too--no witnesses, and the victim wasn't harmed physically

Very atypical of an attack by a group of males.

[Isere]

12. How do you say Tawana Brawley in French?

Mon Dieu, this is dreadful. I hope she does some serious jail time...or serious psychiatric hospital time.