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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: April 29, 2007 |
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Days before the presidential elections in France, authorities are hesitating to call the attack on 22-year-old Audrey Brachelle in Marseilles last Thursday an anti-Semitic incident.
According to the victim, two Middle-Eastern looking men began following her on her way to the metro station in La Rose, a Marseilles neighborhood with many Arab and Jewish residents. She claims the attackers grabbed her cellular phone and then noticed her locket with the Hebrew word "Chai." According to Brachelle, the attackers then began hitting her in the head, cut her hair with a knife, and slashed her shirt. The men drew a swastika on her bare chest and ran away.
The French police have no evidence disproving Brachelle's account, and they have not said they have reason to doubt her claims. Brachelle even reenacted the attack at the scene of the crime. Despite all this, the police spokesman has only said the case "required further investigation."
According to Haaretz, this is probably because defining the incident as anti-Semitic could have broad political consequences for the final round of presidential elections, which are scheduled for May 6.
Meanwhile, according to the victim's family, Brachelle refuses to leave the house and, Haaretz reported, "she has been frightened, confused and suffering from acute headaches since the incident." The family told Haaretz, "We can't even go near her, she just screams at us to leave her alone."
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