{"id":105,"date":"2004-07-11T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=105"},"modified":"2004-08-27T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T17:22:36","slug":"gang-attacks-mother-on-french-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Gang Attacks Mother on French Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a display of misplaced anti-semitism and cowardice, the AP tells the story of a young mother assaulted on a train<\/a>, apparently because the attackers mistook her as a Jew.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

French politicians issued denunciations Sunday as news of the Friday morning attack spread through the nation.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The young woman, who was not identified, was not Jewish and no longer lived in the district, police said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, France, the great bastion of freedom and justice. Of course, here is the part that does not surprise me:<\/p>\n

According to the police account, none of the passengers on the train came to the woman’s rescue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

EDIT: It seems the whole story was fraudulent<\/a>. This lady may be nuts, but she seems to have a good read on her fellow French, nevertheless.<\/p>\n

French President Jacques Chirac had called the alleged attack shameful. But during his annual Bastille Day television interview, following the woman’s retraction, he called the whole affair regrettable.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Chirac said he does not regret his earlier condemnation of the alleged incident. He said France is currently in a period of racist acts against Jews, Muslims, and others. He said the attacks are unacceptable and violate the country’s principles. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a display of misplaced anti-semitism and cowardice, the AP tells the story of a young mother assaulted on a train, apparently because the attackers mistook her as a Jew. 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}