PARIS, France [EJP] — Five youths detained after a Jewish teenager was beaten into a coma by a gang in Paris have been released without charge, AFP reported Wednesday quoting judicial officials.
The minors, aged 14 to 17, were held for questioning as witnesses following Saturday's attack in the multi-ethnic 19th district of the capital.
Five Youths Released Over Beating of Jewish Teen in Paris
PARIS, France [EJP] — Five youths detained after a Jewish teenager was beaten into a coma by a gang in Paris have been released without charge, AFP reported Wednesday quoting judicial officials.
The minors, aged 14 to 17, were held for questioning as witnesses following Saturday’s attack in the multi-ethnic 19th district of the capital.
The Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said Tuesday the 17-year-old victim, Rudy Haddad, was beaten by a gang after street brawls between Jewish teenagers and youths of north African and sub-Saharan descent.
The boy was so badly beaten by a gang wielding metal bars that he went into a coma from which he only emerged on Monday.
According an informed source, he is slowly recovering but remains “very traumatized” and is encountering memory problems.
A probe for “murder attempt aggravated by its anti-Semitic character” has been launched against the perpetrators, a group of six or seven youths of black African origin, who remain at large.
The prosecutor has confirmed the anti-Semitic character of the aggression and said anti-Semitic insults – like ”dirty Jew” – were shouted during the aggression.
Sources quoted in the press reported that several brawls broke out in the area Saturday afternoon between Jewish and North Africans and black youth groups and that Haddad was attacked later on the day when he was walking alone in Rue Petit, near the Haya Mouchka Lubavitch synagogue.
Please continue to say Tehilim for Ruddy Haddad ben Devorah
a jew
This is crazy…Hashem yerachem
a pintele yid
this article really shows how much media bias there is against jews, even when a jewish boy gets beaten within inches of his life. “north african and sub-saharan?” obviously that means MUSLIM, but the papers wouldn’t dare implicate a muslim in an attack on a Jew! also, the article mentions “street brawls between Jewish teenagers and youths of north African and sub-Saharan descent.” that sounds like a bunch of yeshiva bochrim put down their sforim and went out to find some muslims and started a fight. there aren’t jewish gangs in france, just gangs of disgusting arabs with nothing better to do than attack defenseless, holy talmidim of the Rebbe.
want to pray
for saying tehilim; is ‘ruddy’ his real name??
sam kustanovitch
I hope they catch the perpetrators and give them some “street justice” before turning them over to the civilized French Police who won’t do anything to piss off the more than 12 million MUSLIMS living in their country.
debbie
This is so tragic and so sad. I must say that France is not only becoming a Moslem state, but they themselves are so anti-semetic, that the future of Jewry there remains questionable.I can only recall the tragic senseless murder a few years back.Maybe it is time to get out of this hateful country.Let them have have all the Moslems to themselves!