French police make kidnap arrests [13 in custody]

BBC News on line ^ | February 17, 2006 | Unsigned

[aculeus]

French police have arrested 13 people suspected of kidnapping and torturing a young man to death, after luring him with an attractive woman.

The 23-year-old, identified only as Ilan, was discovered on Monday near a train station in the Paris suburbs.

The shop assistant, who was found naked, bound and gagged, and covered in burns died on the way to hospital. He went missing in January after a date with an unknown woman, who approached him at his workplace in central Paris.

Police said they had recorded at least four other similar kidnap attempts since December.

Twelve of those held overnight, aged 17 to 32, were arrested on an estate in the suburban town of Bagneux, where police say the victim was held and tortured. Another suspect was arrested in Belgium.

Lure

Ilan's kidnappers sent a 400,000 euro (£273,500; $475,000) ransom demand in e-mails and text messages to his family, which they were unable to raise.

The sum later dropped to 5,000 euros, after which the gang broke off contact.

The man was found on Monday morning near the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois train station.

On Thursday, a young blonde woman told police that she had recognised herself in a computer-generated portrait of a suspect circulated to the press.

She confirmed that she had been asked to entice several young men, but had not known why. She has also been detained.

Dangerous ringleader

Paris public prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin told a press conference that the presumed leader of the organised gang was still on the run, but that he had been identified and was "extremely dangerous".

Aged 26, he calls himself the "brain of the barbarians" and is thought to have had a number of "run-ins" with the law.

The kidnapping has alarmed France's Jewish community, since the victim worked in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris, and he and several of the others targeted were Jewish.

However, the authorities have played down the likelihood of an anti-Semitic motive, although they have admitted not knowing why the gang carried out the attack.

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[aculeus]

The kidnapping has alarmed France's Jewish community, since the victim worked in a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris, and he and several of the others targeted were Jewish.

However, the authorities have played down the likelihood of an anti-Semitic motive, although they have admitted not knowing why the gang carried out the attack.

[livius]

Bit by bit the information comes out. Very alarming.

It could, of course, be a number of things, ranging from Russian mob activity to - well, to I don't know what. I wonder who the people were who hired this woman.

And why there is no description of the people arrested, other than the fact that the leader calls himself the "brain of the barbarians."

[LongElegantLegs]

Interesting that there's not one suspect named in this article..

[eastforker]

Skin Heads and not TROP???

[aculeus]

Pre-arrests thread ...





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[Lion in Winter]

Yesterday Paris officials identified the suspects as "NORTH AFRICANS"... hardly the RUSSIAN MOB.

[VOA]

Yesterday Paris officials identified the suspects as "NORTH AFRICANS"...
hardly the RUSSIAN MOB.

And France thought they would avoid kidnappings and other terrorist
acts by not joining us in Iraq.

Ha-Ha! (as the kid on the Simpsons would say)

[bboop]

North Africans?? well, you don't say. Picking on Jewish people, torturing them to death, 'king of the barbarians.' It surely fits.

[bayouranger]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the ko-ran condone kidnapping for ransom? It is one of the many forms of terrorism to use against is-a-lies enemies, right?

[stripes1776]

North Africans?? well, you don't say. Picking on Jewish people, torturing them to death, 'king of the barbarians.' It surely fits.

Probably Berbers from North Africa. Berber comes from the word barbarian.

[vimto]

Dangerous gang chief

According to an informed source, the head of the gang has been identified as the 26-year-old Youssef Fofana, a Black Muslim who is calling himself “brain of the barbarians." He is already known to the police services as “extremely dangerous.”

European Jewish News....

Another example of the BBC playing down the facts...

kind regards

[Cicero]

Twelve of those held overnight, aged 17 to 32, were arrested on an estate in the suburban town of Bagneux.

All right, let's translate this. "Suburban" can mean just that, a bedroom community near a city. Or, in France, it can mean one of those "suburbs" where Muslim "youts" are penned in to segregate them from the French.

"An estate" could mean some rich man's chateau. But is it likely that twelve gang members would be hanging out in that kind of estate without being noticed? I think a better translation would be "segregated housing project."

In other words, a Muslim gang from one of the segregated housing projects we saw during the recent riots and the Citroen and Peugot burnings not long ago. Take their victims into the project where they are safe to commit any crimes they please, collect a little ransom, get their kicks with a little torture, kill a few infidels.

And they have international connections, too, from France into Belgium, and no doubt into Holland and so forth.

Look out, Chirac. Wake up. The barbarians are inside your gates.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I doubt that the French elites would care much if their Moorlock serf class kills a few Jews now and then. They will not wake up until it is too late, IMHO.

[aculeus]

All right, let's translate this. "Suburban" can mean just that, a bedroom community near a city.

"Banlieus", where most Muslims live, are more like Brooklyn or The Bronx than Westchester or Southern Connecticut.

It's a mistake to translate "banlieu" to "suburb" which I suspect is what the BBC has done.

[Bon mots]

However, the authorities have played down the likelihood of an anti-Semitic motive, although they have admitted not knowing why the gang carried out the attack.

Liars!
Yeah, right. They don't know why North African Muslims are kidnapping, torturing and murdering Jews.

I hope the rest of the French aren't as stupid and clueless as their leadership.

It's just a matter of time before these vermin are slitting French throats.

This time, I hope we send no American soldiers to clean out Paris.

Remember the riots in Paris... or elsewhere in Europe recently for that matter:


“This was not a race issue, it was purely a thuggish element bordering on criminality. They were not standing up for the community, we are talking about thugs and criminals who wanted to deliberately start things up to create the headlines, and there’s no justification.”

Right.

[Bon mots]

Excellent Site About Islam
The Politically Incorrect Guide

Caution: Some of the photos of the handiwork of peaceful muslims may be disturbing.

[FreePaul]

"An estate" could mean some rich man's chateau.

This article is from a British paper. Translate "estate" to "the projects" or public housing.

[Malesherbes]

The suspect was not named because his first name is Mohammed, and the police feared that naming him would set off riots in Egypt.

[livius]

Interesting - I didn't realize they had identified them yesterday. They seem to have forgotten today...

[Cicero]

Estate had an elevated meaning in Britain, originally. It was applied to housing projects as a euphemism originally, but like all euphemisms it gradually grew tattered. Originally, it meant state or rank in life, as in the three estates.