Posted on 07/11/2004 10:50:19 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
PARIS - A gang of young men attacked a woman riding a suburban train with her infant, cutting her hair and drawing swastikas on her stomach. Other passengers watched but did nothing, police reported.
French politicians issued denunciations Sunday as news of the Friday morning attack spread through the nation.
Police said the gang of six set upon the 23-year-old woman on a suburban train north of Paris and grabbed her backpack where they found identity papers that showed an address in the capital's well-to-do 16th district. "There are only Jews in the 16th," one of the group of attackers said.
The young woman, who was not identified, was not Jewish and no longer lived in the district, police said.
The gang then pushed her and cut her hair "to keep a souvenir," police said. The attackers opened her shirt, reportedly with a knife, before drawing swastikas on her stomach with a marking pen. The 13-month-old infant fell from its stroller in the melee. Neither the mother nor infant was seriously hurt, police said.
Police described the gang as ages 15 to 20 and said some appeared to be of Muslim North African origin.
The attack occurred a day after President Jacques Chirac denounced mounting racial intolerance in France, calling for drastic change "at the risk of indifference and passivity."
According to the police account, none of the passengers on the train came to the woman's rescue.
Chirac denounced Friday's "shameful act" and Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin ordered police to find the culprits "as quickly as possible."
Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said that, in the face of rising anti-Semitism, government decisions are no longer sufficient.
"Each one of us must truly feel threatened by this phenomenon," Cukierman said on France-Info radio. "This is not a problem of Jews but of France."
On Thursday, a day before the attack, Chirac traveled to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small town that sheltered some 5,000 Jews from Nazi occupiers during World War II.
"I ask (the French) to remind their children of the mortal danger of fanaticism, of exclusion, of cowardliness and resignation to extremism," he said.
Anti-Semitic acts have been on the rise in France over the past few years, but recently have spiked, with 135 registered in the first half of this year — more than the total reports last year. The rise in anti-Semitic acts has been accompanied by racist acts against Muslims.
"none of the passengers on the train came to the woman's rescue."
Stick a fork in France, it's done.
"none of the passengers on the train came to the woman's rescue."
This story is posted on another thread. (Don't know if the mods will lock this one up). Very disturbing.
Shocking! </ sarc>
France is toast, and the rest of Europe is soon to follow.
Is being a Muslim now considered a racial identity? So non-Muslims are different races, therefore the Koran is a racist diatribe calling for the death of all non-Muslims. Hey ACLU, get off your collective arses and chew on that, before we end up like France.
I'm surprised this line got past the PC censors. We wouldn't want to reflect badly on the Religion of Peace, would we? </ sarcasm>
I looked but couldn't find it posted.
Why no mention of the Muslim factor, I wonder?
Oh wow they did mention it... surprising. Usually it's just "Sacre Bleu! How cud zees haf happened?"
Jaque Cherac shoud be SO proud!
and not one person came to her aid....a bunch of pussies....
Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin are responsible for allowing France to come to this pass. Chirac just shrugged it off when his ambassador to London called Israel "a sh*tty little country." He embraced Saddam and eagerly took his bribes. He has sided with the Muslims in Africa in Cote Ivoire and elsewhere when they kill Christians.
If anything, de Villepin is even worse.
Sure, they'll look for the suspects. But not very hard.
Islam, the religion of Satan.
No wonder the French are upset; this young mother wasn't Jewish but they thought she was so she was attacked.
Merde, this implies that any Frenchwoman could now be attacked if they're just suspected of being Jewish. More merde, this means real French women, not just Jewish ones, and the French train passangers wouldn't even protect her and her baby from Muslim thugs. Not good, not good at all, and the worst aspect for the French is that George Bush isn't involved...
France, the country of satan.
The Ivory Coast was the only ex-frog country that I
thought could make it.
I was wrong.
?+����?P� is a racial identity. There is more loyalty to being a Muslim then to any country they live in. I'm waiting to see all the Muslims coming out in response to the FBI plea for help in identifying future terrorists who are in the US already.
Seek & Distroy. That's what I say.
Remember the fuss some 30 years ago when that woman was stabbed outside a NY apartment building and no one came to help? There were articles about how the country was falling apart -- a movie of the week -- the media telling America that we had lost our collective conscience.
That works for me.
Shoot the bastards.
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