Non-Jewish Paris woman suffers anti-Semitic attack

[Rudey]

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Six Arab youths attacked a 23-year old woman and her baby because they thought she was Jewish, Friday morning in a commuter train near Paris.

Some twenty people were seated in the double-decker carriage all the time the six were harassing the young mother. According to the police reports, no one tried to come to her help or even pulled the signal to warn a controller.

-Rudey
--"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people"

[kappaloo]

I just read about it elsewhere - disgusting!

[Peaches-n-Cream]

This is just awful. I heard about it on the news. What I don't understand is how no one would come to the aid of this woman and her baby.

The gospel today at Mass was about the Good Samaritan. These witnesses need to familiarize themselves with the story.



There is nothing wrong with working as a gardener. Good for you IowaStatePhiPsi.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I can understand being afraid to get involved. The apathy and lack of compassion is something I don't understand.

[Kevin]

It's kind of parallel to how France acts in its international diplomacy, isn't it?

[PhiPsiRuss]

Anri-Semitism is France? That's a real shocker.

[Kevin]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Anri-Semitism is France? That's a real shocker.

To be fair, the anti-semites were apparently arabs. The French just sat by and watched.

Kind of like WWII.

[moe.ron]

PARIS (AP) - 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 surfaced about whether the attack, which stunned France, had actually occurred.

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 Friday morning. She claimed to have been 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

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[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by ktsnake
To be fair, the anti-semites were apparently arabs. The French just sat by and watched.

Kind of like WWII.

The French have a long history of anti-Semitism, and the French (like in WWII) are rather silent at the resurgence if anti-Semitism in France.

[swissmiss04]

First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Martin Niemoller

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Moral of story: if you're going to fabricate a story that you were attacked in a subway: make sure there are no surveillance cameras to show you lied.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Moral of story: if you're going to fabricate a story that you were attacked in a subway: make sure there are no surveillance cameras to show you lied.

What's your source for this story being fabricated?

[Kevin]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Moral of story: if you're going to fabricate a story that you were attacked in a subway: make sure there are no surveillance cameras to show you lied.

Did you read the same story I did?

Let me ask you, when a women says she's been raped do you demand photographic evidence?

If she was raped and people watched and did nothing, do you think that they'd be quick to come forward and risk being called a conspirator?

Maybe she's lying. But the facts and evidence don't seem to point either way right now. Given that the people who just sat and watched were French, I think it's very possible.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
What's your source for this story being fabricated?

Originally posted by moe.ron
Source

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

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by ktsnake
Let me ask you, when a women says she's been raped do you demand photographic evidence?

Seeing as how in the last few years there have been several college girls that have faked being kidnapped and at Iowa State at least 2 girls that have given false reports of rape- sure.