Paris – UPDATE: Teen Charged In France Over Jewish Teacher Attack

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    FILE - Benjamin Amsellem (C), a Jewish teacher stabbed the day before by a 15-year-old with a machete, and his lawyer Fabrice Labi (R), leave the main police headquarters  in Marseille, southeastern France, on January 12, 2016. (BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images))Paris – A French judge has handed preliminary charges of “attempted assassination linked to a terrorist organization” to a machete-wielding teen who attacked a Jewish teacher.

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    The anti-terrorism section of the prosecutor’s office in the French capital announced the charges Wednesday evening, two days after the attack in Marseille that shocked the country.

    A leading Jewish authority in the southern French city asked fellow Jews on Tuesday to refrain from wearing their traditional skull cap to stay safe after the incident.

    France is still reeling from a series of attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and just marked the anniversary of attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store which killed 17 people. In each case, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.


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    8 years ago

    Notice, not a word about the nationality of the terrorist teen. The liberal press still seeks to protect and cover up for Islamic terrorism, just like Obama and Hillary do,