Killed for being Jewish:
Ilan Halimi was lured into a honey trap, kidnapped and tortured for three weeks, before being found naked and handcuffed to a tree near a railway track in February 2006.
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans…” (Qur’an 5:82)
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” — Sahih Muslim 6985
“Gang on Trial For Torturing French Jew to Death,” from Reuters, April 29 (thanks to JW): AP: 28 Muslims on Trial for Torture and Murder of Jew…
PARIS (Reuters) – A self-proclaimed “gang of barbarians” accused of kidnapping a young Jewish man in a Paris suburb, torturing him for 24 days and killing him went on trial Wednesday.The death of Ilan Halimi, 23, in 2006 horrified France and came to symbolize a rise in anti-Semitic violence in its poor, multi-ethnic suburbs.
The leader of the “barbarians,” Youssouf Fofana, smirked at Halimi’s relatives and shouted “Allahu akbar!” (“God is Greatest!” in Arabic) at them as he entered the courtroom.
Bearded and wearing a white tracksuit, Fofana gave his identity during formal questioning by the judge as “Arabs African revolt barbarian salafist army.”
The 28-year-old said he was born on February 13, 2006, in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, the date and place of Halimi’s death.
During his time in detention, Fofana, a young French man of Ivorian origin, has bombarded the magistrates investigating the case with letters full of anti-Semitic insults….
Gallia Watch: Muslim kills young couple over parked car
* The (Muslim) man had a reputation for violence”
Here’s one of so many stories we hear about on a daily basis: a person known to be violent is free to move about in society. The authorities do nothing until a calamity occurs. And even then, they do very little… The simplistic tone of the article is typical, in it’s wearisome objectivity, of the way crime is reported in the press.
The northern city of Denain was holding its 106th carnival. Three kilometers away, at Douchy-les-Mines, a 62-year-old man named Ahmed Assous murdered a young French couple. Because their car was improperly parked. The regional paper La Voix du Nord reports:
Ilan Halimi case from AP, By Henry Samuel in Paris
‘Gang of barbarians’ go on trial for Paris torture and murder of Jewish man
A gang of 28 Muslims known as ‘the barbarians’ go on trial today accused of the 24-day torture and murder of a younge Jewish man that appalled France due to it’s brutality and apparent anti-Semitism.
Ilan Halimi was lured into a honey trap, kidnapped and tortured for three weeks, before being found naked and handcuffed to a tree near a railway track in February 2006.
Tens of thousands took to the streets to march against anti-Semitism after the brutal crime, although defence lawyers say financial gain was the prime motive. The murder came just months after France’s high-immigrant suburbs exploded into three weeks of nightly riots, and rapidly took on political overtones.
The alleged gang leader, Youssouf Fofana, and 26 others are to answer various charges during the trial, which will be held behind closed doors before a Paris juvenile court because two defendants were minors at the time of the crime.
Prosecutors describe Mr Fofana, 28, as a “perverted megalomaniac” bent on kidnapping Jews for ransom “because they are loaded with dough” and “stick together”. He escaped to the Ivory Coast shortly after the murder but was arrested and extradited to France.
Also known as “Ossama” and “Mohammed”, Mr Fofana initially admitted to the murder but has since changed his story several times, often lapsing into unintelligible anti-Semitic rants. He has switched lawyers almost 40 times and has already served a one-year jail sentence for insulting officers and a judge.
The French-born son of Ivorian immigrants is the only defendant facing a life sentence, while 15 others are facing charges of kidnapping and sequestering.
As the gang’s alleged ringleader, he is accused of stabbing Mr Halimi and dousing his body with rubbing alcohol before setting him alight because the victim “looked at him in the eyes” before he was let go.
Several other defendants are friends and family members of the gang, who come from the Paris suburbs and who are being prosecuted for having failed to report an offence.
Mr Halimi went missing on January 20, 2006 while on a date with a 17-year old girl he had met at the mobile phone store where he worked near République, central Paris.
It is alleged the girl turned out to be an accomplice of Mr Fofana and part of a well-prepared plot to lure him to a basement of a building in a Paris suburb. There, he was attacked, subdued with ether, handcuffed and his feet and mouth bound with tape.
He was moved to an empty apartment in the Paris suburb of Bagneux. Mr Fofana demanded 450,000 euros from his family. Photographs showing the hostage blindfolded and gaunt, and an audio message of the hostage pleading for his life were released by his captors. A videotaped plea was also sent to the captive’s parents.
When no ransom was forthcoming, Mr Fofana’s accomplices turned against the gang leader, arguing the kidnapping had gone far enough, say prosecutors.
On February 13, Mr Fofana told them he planned to release Mr Halimi, who was loaded into the trunk of a stolen car. Three hours later, a train driver spotted his nude body next to the railroad tracks and alerted police.
He died on the way to hospital. The then president, Jacques Chirac, met the parents and promised to bring the culprits to justice.
The victim’s mother has accused police of having botched the investigation by ruling out anti-Semitism as a factor in the crime. “If Ilan wasn’t Jewish, he wouldn’t have been killed,” she claimed.
Ruth Halimi is expected to urge the court to open the hearings to the public today to provide a full accounting of her son’s death.
But Michel Wieviorka, the author of a book on anti-Semitism in France, said: “The motive was money first and anti-Semitism was an additional factor. But at the outset, it was not aimed at expressing hatred toward Jews.”
Prosecutors believe the gang had used women to lure nine other men in the kidnapping scheme but that these attempts failed. The “Barbarians” also tried to racketeer several doctors and company bosses.
All deny murder.
The 23-year-old was in a state of shock and unable to talk, his body covered with burns, cuts and bruises, and he died en route to hospital.
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Bring back Mme. G.
This so disturbing on so many levels. …Geesh
Yes. it is rather disturbing. What is equally disturbing is the silence of the moderate muslim majority and the willingness of the PC collective to forgive and forget. AT WHAT PRICE?!
Islam will pay a big price and the so-called moderates will regret their cowardice.
ahh – the religion of peace strike again.
MOSLEM PIGS ,WORLD IS SUCKED BY YOU ,NO OTHER WORK FOR THESE INSANE CULT,AND SEEMS THERE MODERATOR ALSO ENJOY THE HEROIC OF THERE REGIION BUTCHERS,SAME STORY IN INDIA BUT HINDUS IN INDIA ARE NO MORE SILENCE AND WILL BLOW THE TESTISLES OF MOSLEMS IF THEY DARE TO DO AGIN WHICH WILL BE REPEATED WITH OTHER BIG BLOW TO THEM.
I HAVE READ ALL ATROCITIES DONE TO JEWS GOD WHY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS AFTER THEM,MOHIT INDIA-FRIEND OF ISRAEL
BUTCHERS REQUIRE BUTCHERS ,SO OTHER PEOPLES OF WORLD EXCEPT (PEACE LOVERS) TO FORM UNITY ,AND COUNTER ATTACK THESE (NO WORD CAN DESCRIBE THEM) SEE IN THERE EYES AND YOU CAN SEE HAIR OF PIG IN MOSLEM MALES ,TREAT THERE WOMENS TO POOR STANDARD,INFACT I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND WHEN MOSEM UNDERWORLD IS THERE TO PROTECT THERE CASTE WHY DONT UNDERWORLD PEOPLE OF OTHER CASTES/COUNTRIES ATTCK MOSLEM YOUTH WHO
SNIP for incitement…