Two Jewish boys wearing yarmulkes were attacked in front of a train station in a Paris suburb. According to the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, the 11-year-old boys were approached by four or five men of African and Arab origin, who hurled racial epithets at them before striking one of the boys to the ground and holding the other forcefully.
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