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Suspended Jail Term Issued for Attack Hoax

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From Times Wire Reports

A French court handed a four-month suspended jail sentence to a woman who pretended she was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in which swastikas were daubed on her stomach.

Marie-Leonie Leblanc, 23, said six knife-wielding youths of Arab and African origin attacked her on a Paris train July 9 because they thought she was Jewish. She said they chopped off some of her hair and toppled a stroller carrying her 13-month-old baby. She later admitted making up the story.

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