diff --git a/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/__manifest__.py b/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/__manifest__.py
index 10ec288d..a6e72748 100644
--- a/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/__manifest__.py
+++ b/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/__manifest__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # License AGPL-3.0 or later (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html).
 {
     "name": "CAMT Format Bank Statements Import",
-    "version": "13.0.1.0.0",
+    "version": "13.0.1.0.1",
     "license": "AGPL-3",
     "author": "Therp BV, Odoo Community Association (OCA)",
     "website": "https://github.com/OCA/bank-statement-import",
diff --git a/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/models/parser.py b/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/models/parser.py
index 971b4206..a149b917 100644
--- a/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/models/parser.py
+++ b/account_bank_statement_import_camt_oca/models/parser.py
@@ -242,8 +242,11 @@ class CamtParser(models.AbstractModel):
         try:
             root = etree.fromstring(data, parser=etree.XMLParser(recover=True))
         except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
-            # ABNAmro is known to mix up encodings
-            root = etree.fromstring(data.decode("iso-8859-15").encode("utf-8"))
+            try:
+                # ABNAmro is known to mix up encodings
+                root = etree.fromstring(data.decode("iso-8859-15").encode("utf-8"))
+            except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
+                root = None
         if root is None:
             raise ValueError("Not a valid xml file, or not an xml file at all.")
         ns = root.tag[1 : root.tag.index("}")]