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A serious anti-Semitic incident occurred at a railway station in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris. On Sunday evening, two youths attacked a 15-year-old boy who was wearing a kippah. The attackers chased him near the station, tore off his headphones and hit him in the face.

The boy’s family filed a complaint with Levallois police, citing a “deliberate attack with aggravated anti-Semitic motives.” The victim’s mother told French news outlet Le Parisien: “I believe that if he had not been wearing a kippah, they would not have attacked him.”

The incident began when the boy was returning home to Paris after visiting his father, a restaurant worker in Levallois. He encountered two attackers as he walked down the stairs at Pont de Levallois metro station. “When he saw their eyes, he knew he had to take off his kippah,” his mother explained.

The attackers shouted: “Hey, Jew, come here!” The boy tried to run away to the station, but one of them caught him. They cornered him, demanded his phone and ripped off his headphones.

The boy managed to escape and leave the station, but the attackers chased him into the street. “He fought back and hit one of them, he fell,” his mother continued. “But the attackers overpowered him.” “My son was screaming and they eventually ran away,” she said. “He ran with bleeding lips and pain in his head.”

Authorities are investigating the case, but police say it is not yet certain that the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. David-Xavier Weiss, deputy mayor of Levallois, spoke with Interior Minister Bruno Retallo, who asked for an update on the boy’s condition and assured that the investigation would be closely monitored.

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