On Friday, the public prosecutor’s office in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) ordered ‘the opening of an investigation against an adult and a minor for attempted rape and robbery on the grounds of sexual orientation and religion’. Last Tuesday, at around 9.15pm in Pantin, two young people aged 16 and 19 confronted their victim, a 22-year-old man, and insulted him as a ‘dirty faggot’ and a ‘dirty Jew’. These insults came out of nowhere. As for the reference to alleged Jewishness, no external religious sign could indicate that the young man was actually Jewish. Le Parisien