 I
hope there's not going to be too much doubt about
this affair
-- whispered by President of
the Ile-de-France, recorded by France 2
television.
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Tuesday, July 13,
2004  David
Irving comments: THERE HAS been a long
and painful series of media reports in
recent years recording alleged
anti-Semitic outrages -- which every
right-minded citizen condemns -- but which
then turn out to be the product of a
fevered imagination, or perhaps of a
disordered brain.
We do not of
course condemn the unfortunate souls who
raise these allegations in the first
place; they deserve our sympathy in every
respect.
We condemn the media who
print the stories without question,
pandering to the Jewish bodies on which
they are seemingly financially dependent,
and the criminal organisations who try to
profit from them and even to adduce them
as evidence for the need for further
oppressive laws restricting the basic
human rights of free speech and
thought. |
Mother, baby
train attack in doubt From correspondents in
Paris DOUBTS arose today over an
alleged anti-Semitic attack on a mother and her
baby on a Paris suburban train. The alleged attack, in which the woman said a
gang of six youths cut her clothes and drew
swastikas on her body, has drawn
fierce condemnation from
politicians, civil rights groups and Jewish
associations. National newspapers
gave it front-page prominence under such
headlines as "The Train of Hate" and "Vile and
Stupid". But police sources today said they were puzzled
by "contradictions" that had emerged since the
alleged incident on Friday
[July 9] and
the lack of confirming evidence. The woman said the alleged attackers had
believed her to be Jewish when they found out she
lived in Paris' upper-class 16th arrondissement,
and had tipped over the baby carriage holding her
13-month-old child. "Only Jews live in the 16th district," one of
the attackers was quoted by the press as
saying. But investigators said closed-circuit cameras at
the station where the 23-year-old woman said the
attackers had alighted did not reveal the presence
of six youths. Police were continuing to check all
video-surveillance cameras along the line, and
officers rode the trains in search of
witnesses. Railway personnel at the ticket office where the
woman said she reported the affair could remember
nothing about it, the investigators said. Frank Carabin, a
representative of a police officer's union, said
it was curious that no witnesses had come
forward, and added that there were
inconsistencies in the woman's statement. "The inquiry is continuing, but with
uncertainties," he said. Another police union official, Bruno
Beschizza, said, "Contradictions have appeared.
There are not enough elements of proof." A 28-year-old man said he had seen the woman on
the platform of the station where she said she
boarded the train before the attack. He said her
clothes were torn and she was crying. "I asked her
if she wanted help, and she said no," the man
said. The woman, identified only as Marie L.
spent more than an hour with the secretary of state
for victim's rights, Nicole Guedj. She left
in a car with darkened windows without giving
comment to the media. Later, politicians appeared to be backing away
from the story. "I hope there's not going to be too much doubt
about this affair," the president of the
Ile-de-France region whispered to Guedj in an aside
recorded and broadcast by France 2
television. © Queensland
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BBC: Doubts
surround "swastika attack" | BBC: Swastika
attack woman lied | The
French woman confesses to police she made up the
incident, a judicial source
said 
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'a reality that we must
combat'"]-
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