PARIS: A Jewish teenager in Paris was beaten and hospitalized in intensive care, and Jewish groups said Sunday the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism.

Police said they were investigating the crime, which reportedly left the teen in a coma. Few details about the attack were immediately available from police, including the number of assailants and whether they were armed.

But President Nicolas Sarkozy, leaving for a visit to Israel later Sunday, issued a statement "renewing total determination to fighting all forms of racism and anti-Semitism."

The Union of Jewish Students of France said the attack was clearly anti-Semitic, in part because the 17-year-old was wearing a Jewish skullcap when he was beaten Saturday night in eastern Paris.

The teenager's father told RTL radio that his son was in a coma. The Paris hospital network said the teenager was in intensive care at the Cochin Hospital in Paris. The family's identity was not released because the teenager is a minor.

France has western Europe's largest population of both Jews and Muslims. The nation faced a surge in anti-Semitic crime starting in 2000 after tensions between Israelis and Palestinians flared up in the Middle East.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/22/news/France-Teenager-Attacked.php

France is now America's friend again and Americans are being told this daily through a variety of media. However, most Americans have no clue as to why France is once again "our friend."

When the opportunity presents itself I think we should make it clear to those around us that French president Sarkozy (sp?) is a Jew and since the U.S. is Jew controlled it's only natural that France is again "our friend."

This is a great opportunity to show clearly the Jew influence in world and U.S. affairs and how it directly affects America and Americans.

This is now being said to have been a gang thing:

Another article I just read said that the jewish guy himself has a criminal record and is "known to police"


The Paris public prosecutor opened a probe into the "anti-Semitic character" of an attack on a Jewish teen.

The probe will determine if Rudy Haddad's unidentified attackers are guilty of "attempted murder aggravated by an anti-Semitic character" and "group violence with aggravating circumstances," said Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin at a news conference Tuesday evening, the AFP news agency reported.

Marin said Haddad, 17, who remains in the hospital but has regained consciousness, was beaten June 21 in circumstances related to a string of fights pitting young Jews against young blacks that took place that afternoon and evening.

"We have a sort of identification of a presupposed African or black community on one hand, and a Jewish community on the other," Marin said. "It is anti-Semitism by incidence."

The prosecutor said investigators believe Haddad was targeted because he was a member of a Jewish band of youth and not necessarily because he was "a person of Jewish origin."

It is also unclear if Haddad was attacked after he left synagogue or on his way there, as was reported earlier by some Jewish community organizations.

What what are seeing here is the direct result of multiculturalism. Two very different peoples sharing the same space. Two peoples who occupy very high spaces on the special victim hood ladder who are just not getting along and holding hands. How shocking. Let's hear the jewish leaders, crying about anti Semites, talk about that.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109209.html