Woman faces jail over attack claims

A FRENCH woman who confessed to fabricating a story about being the victim of a cruel anti-Semitic attack was charged yesterday with making up a crime and faces six months in prison.

The claims by the 23-year-old mother, identified only as Marie-Leonie, shocked France.

The woman initially claimed she was robbed on a Paris train last Friday by a knife-wielding gang who mistook her for a Jew, scrawled swastikas on her body and cut off a lock of hair. After police found no witnesses, and learned the woman had a history of filing complaints about assaults, she was detained.