That was quick

A French court handed a four-month suspended jail sentence yesterday to Marie-Leonie Leblanc, 23, who pretended she was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack on a French train earlier this month, almost giving the Parisian Jewish community a collective heart-attack.

"I wanted people to look after me," a pale Leblanc, dressed in jeans and a white sweatshirt, told a magistrate's court in the northwest Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise. "I wanted my parents and (my partner) Christophe to look after me."

The sentence also requires Leblanc to undergo medical treatment.