Hoax Confirmed: A Beating in Nice (2018)
According to World Israel News the following ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ was reported in Nice, France in 2018. To wit
‘Police arrested four men Saturday for beating four Jewish teenagers in the early hours of the morning in the southern French city of Nice, in an attack the city’s mayor immediately labeled “anti-Semitic.”
Mayor Christian Estrosi pointed out in a statement that one of the teens was wearing a Star of David on a gold chain which he was relieved of during the assault which left the victims bruised but not seriously injured.
“I condemn the intolerable anti-Semitic aggression of four young people in downtown Nice tonight,” he said. “The violence and cowardice of such acts must never be trivialized or unpunished. I expect severe justice to be meted out with regard to the aggressors.”
The police quickly found and arrested four of the five alleged attackers. However, according to the Le Monde Juif news site, the public prosecutor denied that their motives were anti-Semitic in nature.
“It’s a fight between young people in an alcoholic state on a Friday night,” Jean-Michel Prêtre, the public prosecutor, told Nice Matin. “This fight has nothing to do with religion.”
The mayor disagreed, however, and France 3 news reported that he phoned one of the families whose son was hurt to express his “solidarity with the Jewish community” in general, and the boys in particular. He praised their “strength of character” and called their experience a “test” for them – but also for his country.
“Such acts cannot be committed on the soil of the Republic, that is why I expect strict justice with regard to the aggressors,” he said.
The four men were still in custody as of Saturday evening.’ (1)
The problem with the whole ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ narrative however is that the attack is being labelled ‘anti-Semitic’ by the Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi because one of the jewish teenagers was wearing a gold necklace with a Star of David on it. There were not ‘anti-Semitic’ comments and no other apparent indication that the victims were jews.
Then we have the fact that Jean-Michel Prêtre – the local prosecutor – has explicitly denied that the fight was ‘anti-Semitic’ or had anything to do with the jewishness of the victims. On balance I’d tend to believe the public prosecutor over the local mayor as the latter has obvious motive to make political capital out of the incident. Where-as the prosecutor simply does not.
Scratch another ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ hoax.
References
(1) https://worldisraelnews.com/four-jewish-minors-assaulted-in-nice-suspects-apprehended/