Police patrolled suburban trains on Monday and studied video from surveillance cameras, trying to track down six men who allegedly attacked a young mother and scrawled swastikas on her stomach. But doubts began to surface about the truth of the attack report that stunned France. A 23-year-old mother told police that she was robbed by a knife-wielding gang of six young men while riding a train with her infant on Friday morning, then mistreated after being mistaken for a Jew. None of some 20 witnesses came to her rescue, she told police.
Investigators trying to track down the culprits had almost no clues to guide them. Surveillance cameras at the station where the culprits reportedly left the train showed no young men running from the scene, 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 for violence and aggression in the past. Neither provided sources, but LCI said she had filed six such complaints in the past. That information could not be immediately confirmed. Police, their information based on the woman’s account, said that the gang, described by the victim as between 15 and 20, allegedly grabbed the woman’s backpack, taking her money and credit cards. When they saw that her identification card said she lived in the wealthy 16th district of Paris, they reportedly told the woman: "There are only Jews in the 16th."
The woman told police that the men, described as North Africans and blacks, then cut off locks of her hair, opened her shirt with their knives and used markers to draw three swastikas on her stomach. Guedj said the woman told her that about 20 people in the train were "capable of seeing" what was happening. One of the attackers held the woman by her neck, forcing her to keep her head to the ground so that she couldn’t see them, several French newspapers quoted police as saying.
For those who don’t know, the Tawanna Brawley case was a big deal in the US. She claimed she was gang-raped by six white guys, smeared with dog crap and left in a Dumpster. It was all a lie. And it’s how Al Sharpton made his name. If this French woman is also a lying psycho, it’s a damn shame. Because that would provide ammo for those who claim anti-Semitism isn’t a problem in France. |