A 60-year-old man has been beaten in Paris in what seems to be a religious hate crime, newspaper Le Parisien reports.

The man had gone shopping for Christmas and was carrying a present wrapped in Christmas gift paper.

A stranger approached him, jostled and slapped him, dropping his glasses on the floor. The attacker then fled and was heard saying: “This is what we do to the disbelievers”.

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