Muslim Woman Stabbed With Box Cutter in Race-Hate Attack

A Muslim woman was wounded with a box cutter in a race-hate attack following the Paris terrorist atrocities, France’s interior minister has said.

Bernard Cazeneuve condemned the assault and another attack on a Jewish teacher as “cowardly” and urged French citizens to remember the “values of the Republic”.

A statement from the Interior Ministry said: “The interior minister addresses support to victims and to the Marseillais of Jewish and Muslim faiths.

“Everything is done to find and question those responsible for these unspeakable acts, who must face justice.

“Bernard Cazeneuve reminds the total government’s determination to combat all forms of racism and anti-Semitism, and to severely punish advocating terrorism.

“More than ever, the French must come together around the values of the Republic.”