Police seek clues as doubts emerge over ‘swastika’ attack

FRENCH police patrolled suburban trains yesterday and studied video from surveillance cameras, trying to track down six men who allegedly attacked a young mother and scrawled swastikas on her stomach.

But doubts began to surface about the truth of the attack report that stunned France.

A 23-year-old mother told police she was robbed by a knife-wielding gang of six young men while on a train with her 13-month-old child on Friday morning, then mistreated after being mistaken for a Jew. None of some 20 witnesses came to her rescue, she told police.