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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on April 05, 2024, 07:41:47 PM

Title: French pupil dies after being beaten near school
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 05, 2024, 07:41:47 PM

Story needs to have something more statistically based than the proximity in time of two attacks to indicate if this is anything other than coincidence.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68744255

Title: Re: French pupil dies after being beaten near school
Post by: jeremyp on April 06, 2024, 11:59:27 AM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 05, 2024, 07:41:47 PM

Story needs to have something more statistically based than the proximity in time of two attacks to indicate if this is anything other than coincidence.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68744255

This

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Samara puts on a bit of make-up. And this other girl wears the headscarf. All the time, she kept calling her an unbeliever

and this

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My daughter is a practising pious Muslim. She fasts during Ramadan and prays five times a day. Please do not use us to sully the name of our religion

(both from the victim's mother) are somewhat in opposition.

Title: Re: French pupil dies after being beaten near school
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2024, 12:15:51 PM

Quote from: jeremyp on April 06, 2024, 11:59:27 AM

This

and this

(both from the victim's mother) are somewhat in opposition.

None of which was in the report when I put it up.

Title: Re: French pupil dies after being beaten near school
Post by: jeremyp on April 06, 2024, 02:28:50 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 06, 2024, 12:15:51 PM

None of which was in the report when I put it up.

So I'm guessing that some of the other incidents they mentioned were not there either - not that they change your general point.