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Puck
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French swastika attack condemned
Monday, July 12, 2004 Posted: 10:30 AM EDT (1430 GMT)
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French politicians have condemned an apparently anti-Semitic attack on a woman in which a knife-wielding gang on a suburban train cut her hair, ripped her clothes and drew swastikas on her body.
The attack on a 23-year-old who was with her 13-month-old baby involved six young men on Friday morning in front of other passengers on the train just north of Paris, authorities said.
French media said the attackers appeared to have been north African and that the victim was not Jewish but the gang may have believed she was after taking her handbag and finding identity papers with an address in a wealthy area of Paris.
French President Jacques Chirac issued a statement demanding "everything be done to catch the perpetrators of this shameful act, and that they are judged and sentenced with all severity."
Last week Chirac urged renewed efforts against what he called "the darkest side of human nature," and said state prosecutors should appeal against any lenient sentences handed down for racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic violence.
Anti-Semitic attacks in France have risen in recent months and officials say most are committed by Muslim youths angered by Middle East violence.
France has Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim minorities and racism has become a significant political issue with Chirac concerned widening divisions in French society could harm the country's image.
Jean-Paul Huchon, president of the Ile-de-France region surrounding Paris, said it was vile and unacceptable to attack a defenseless woman and child and condemned that fact that other passengers did nothing to intervene.
He noted that France had deported Jewish children during the German occupation World War II: "And now, we let people be attacked like this without reacting, without doing anything," he said on French radio.
In recent weeks, neo-Nazis have spray-painted swastikas and hate slogans on Jewish, Muslim and Christian cemeteries in the eastern region of Alsace.
The Interior Ministry registered 67 attacks on Jews or their property and 160 threats against Jews in the first quarter of this year compared with 42 attacks and 191 threats in the last three months of 2003.
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Pah-Wraith
Sheikh
Joined: 30 Nov 2001
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Location: Londonistan.
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| Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:01 pm |
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Thats what happens when a country turns Secular 
It's Sick.
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Puck
The Texan
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| Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:11 pm |
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This is what gets me:
| Quote: | The attack on a 23-year-old who was with her 13-month-old baby involved six young men on Friday morning in front of other passengers on the train just north of Paris, authorities said.
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IN FRONT OF OTHER PASSENGERS! DID THEY JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH!!!!???? I am sure that there were enough of them to outnumber six people!
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Jeremy
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It's amazing what a bit of fear does. It happens again and again with dictators. If the people in these countries chose to rise up then they could be overthrow, but the people are scared for their lifes. I'm not condemning them as I might easily do something like that in their situation. It's probably the same reason, although if something like that happened here I hope I would not stand by and watch it happen without doing something.
It's totally sick what they did.
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Oliver
Thought Maker
Joined: 28 Feb 2004
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Location: Antwerp, Belgium
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It turns out that the 23-year old lady was lying. Her statement is full of mistakes and no one on the train has seen the six men. Even surveillance cameras didn�t spot them. One person even saw the woman come onboard the train with her cloths all torn up. She allegedly filled a complaint at the train station. However, there is no trace of that complaint whatsoever.
Although I can�t judge, as I have no proof of any of this, I do find it very strange. French authorities are investigating�
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