A big and dangerous lie disturbed France twice in three days. All mass media officials, leaders of different parties, and politicians faced a perilous quandary.It started when Marie, a 23-year-old lady and a mother of a baby girl, reached the police station in a wretched state and claimed that six Arab guys had soundly beaten her, drawn swastikas on parts of her body and stolen her bag, mistaking her for a Jew. Eventually, Marie [and her story] received a fatal blow from her mother, who stated that she couldn’t silently bear to see such ado created by her sick daughter, who often lies and makes up stories.