ZGram - 7/13/2004 - "Another hoaxer caught!"

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July 13, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

There is one question left in this account about yet another 
"swastika" hoaxer:  Why is her last name not given?  She is hardly a 
minor.  It couldn't possibly have been Levi - now, could it?

This Nazi bashing is really getting old with stupid, self-styled victimhood!

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Woman Admits Lying
Over 'Swastika' Assault

By Henry Samuel
The Telegraph - UK
7-13-4

PARIS -- A woman who claimed to have been the victim of an 
anti-semitic attack that shocked France admitted yesterday that she 
had made up the incident.

The 23-year-old confessed after being arrested amid growing suspicion 
about her account. She is said to have a record of reporting alleged 
crimes for which no culprit could be traced.

President Jacques Chirac will be embarrassed by the development after 
moving so swiftly to condemn Friday's alleged assault before any 
corroborating evidence was found.

The woman, identified only as Marie-Leonie L claimed that a gang of 
six youths of North African Arab appearance attacked her on a Paris 
suburban train, slashing her clothes and drawing swastikas on her 
stomach, after mistaking her for a Jew.

Almost as disturbing as the detail of the assault was her claim that 
20 other passengers had done nothing to help her. Despite government 
pleas for witnesses, no one came forward. Yesterday, the woman 
changed her story to say she had been assaulted outside the train 
before finally admitting that she invented the entire incident.

Police said she told them that she had drawn the swastikas on her own 
stomach with the help of her boyfriend.

State prosecutors said she had been placed in preventive detention 
for "falsely reporting a crime". Her boyfriend was also detained. The 
woman had originally claimed that her "assailants" stole her bag and 
toppled a pram carrying her 13-month-old child before fleeing.

But investigators said closed-circuit television cameras at the 
station north of Paris where the woman said the attackers boarded the 
train did not reveal the presence of six youths.

Last week, Mr Chirac pledged to crack down hard on perpetrators of 
anti-semitic, racist and homophobic acts. He has refused to grant 
presidential pardons to perpetrators of race-hate crimes.

France's Socialist former finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 
said that even if the incident proved to be untrue, there had 
undoubtedly been dozens of case this year in a worrying rise in 
anti-semitism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;session

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