[MikeDubreuil]

The article says that one of the Jewish students could understand and speak French. The student said that the man said things that were "brutish and vulgar," but that also "made absolutely no sense."

Why would someone talk in their native language and make absolutely no sense? Either these French men were mentally unstable or perhaps they had a little too much alcohol to drink. Either one, they probably didn't undertand the impact they were going to make when they did it and probably just did it because they thought it was amusing at the time.