PARIS - An attack on a French couple this week is reviving worries about long-simmering anti-Semitic sentiment in France.
The Service for the Protection of the Jewish Community in France said two people were handed preliminary charges Wednesday night of religion-motivated violence, armed robbery, rape, sequestration and extortion.
The two are suspected of forcing their way into an apartment in the Paris suburb of Creteil and tying up a young man and woman and demanding money. The victims say the woman was raped.
The French government insists it's determined to fight all forms of racism and anti-Semitism after the attack Tuesday.
France's main Jewish organization decried the attack, noting that anti-Semitic incidents have happened regularly in France.