Mexico City

First lady rules out run for presidency

First lady Marta Sahagun on Monday ruled out plans to seek the presidency on her own in 2006, ending speculation that at times has overshadowed the actions of her husband, Vicente Fox.

“I will not be a candidate for presidency of the republic,” Sahagun said in an announcement at the presidential residence of Los Pinos.

“We will go home together” when Fox’s term ends on Dec. 1, 2006, she said. She refused to take questions.

Fox said last week that his wife had no plan to seek the presidency.

Critics have compared Sahagun to a conservative Hillary Clinton.

Paris

Police can’t verify anti-Semitic attack

Police patrolled suburban trains on Monday and studied video from surveillance cameras, trying to track down six men who allegedly attacked a young mother and scrawled swastikas on her stomach.

But doubts surfaced about whether the attack, which stunned France, had occurred.

A 23-year-old mother told police that she was robbed by a knife-wielding gang of six young men while riding a train with her infant Friday morning. She said she was mistreated after being mistaken for a Jew.

Surveillance cameras at the station where the culprits reportedly left the train showed no young men running from the scene, and no witnesses have come forward despite repeated calls from officials and promises of anonymity.

Both France-Info radio and the television station LCI reported that the young woman had filed several complaints about violence before.