[news] Marie and the Ghosts

[Resist!ca]

Sometimes a trivial episode throws a revealing light on a grave public disease. 
A week ago, a young Frenchwoman called Marie Leonie caused an uproar. According 
to her, six youngsters "with a North African look" attacked her in a Paris 
train, grabbed her purse and, (wrongly) believing her to be Jewish because she 
lives in the well-to-do 16th arrondissement, tore her clothes and painted 
swastikas on her belly.   And then, suddenly, the whole story collapsed. 
 Not a single eye-witness came forward.  The station cameras did not 
show any sign of the occurrence.  It became known that the young woman had 
made false statements to the police in the past.  Two days after the 
uproar, the woman broke down and admitted the truth: the whole thing was an 
invention.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/29/91350/7177