French police arrested five youths, ages 16 to 21, for attacking two young boys wearing  kippot [skullcaps] in the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine Wednesday night. A 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were also beaten, as they tried to defend their two nephews against the gang.

The attackers shouted anti-Semitic insults, according to the French umbrella organization CRIF, but French police said only that there is a "strong suspicion" of anti-Semitism in the attack. The victims were treated in a local hospital for light wounds.