French police are holding three young men suspected of attacking a 16-year-old Jewish youth.
According to witnesses, several groups of teenagers were hanging out in a parking lot near the Annecy Lake between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. after attending a fireworks show. Hearing a young girl call her friend �Abraham,� four young men of North African origin allegedly approached, said �You�re Jewish?� and then beat up the boy, kicking him in the stomach and jaw. Abraham, who is of Venezuelan nationality, was taken to the hospital, treated and released.