We're up to four now. Of course two of them are college papers, one of which printed a parody, below. Thanks to both of you for your commentary.
Posted on 02/19/2006 4:21:02 AM PST by Hannah Senesh
Ilan Halimi, 23-year-old Parisian man, found tied to tree, naked, wounded, with burns covering his body; police arrest 13 suspects, say act not motivated by anti-Semitism
The French police arrested 13 people on suspicion of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew.
Halimi was found on Monday tied to a tree, naked and wounded, with burns covering all parts of his body. He died on the way to the hospital.
Police officials said that the abduction and murder were apparently not motivated by anti-Semitism, but added that they have not yet discovered what led the group to commit the acts.
The affair, which stunned France's Jewish community, began about a month ago, when a good-looking young woman entered a cellular phone store in Paris, where Halimi worked, and began talking to him.
The two exchanged telephone numbers, and after speaking on the phone a number of times, set a meeting in a suburb south of Paris. Halimi left for the meeting on January 20, and has been missing ever since.
Later, the kidnappers contacted Halimi's family members and asked them for a ransom of Euro 400,000 (about USD 476,239). The family, however, was unable to collect such a large amount of money, and the kidnappers thus lowered their demand to Euro 5,000 (5,953). Then, a week and a half ago, they stopped contacting the family.
Failed abduction attempts
The police, who had launched a secret investigation into the affair, were unable to locate the kidnappers, who had used stolen cellular phones and were photographed wearing masks.
The investigation did reveal that the kidnappers had already attempted to execute similar abductions at least four times before, but had failed for various reasons.
Over the weekend, French newspapers revealed that 12 out of the 13 suspects arrested, aged 17 to 32, were captured in the suburb south of Paris where Halimi was tortured.
Among the detainees was also the young woman, whose photo was published in the newspapers as the seducing girl. The girl claimed that she was indeed asked to seduce a number of young men, but was unaware of the act's purpose.
The last suspect in the affair was arrested in Belgium.
The investigation into the affair was handed to the Parisian police's severe crimes unit, and it is being personally supervised by Paris' public prosecutor.
Despite the police's doubts, Halimi's family believes that the act was motivated by anti-Semitism.
“We think there is anti-Semitism in this affair,” Rafi, Ilan’s brother-in-law, told the European Jewish Press. ”First because the killers tried to kidnap at least two other Jews, and secondly because of what they said on the phone."
”When we said we didn’t have Euro 500,000 to give them, they answered we should go to the synagogue and get it,” Rafi stressed.
“They also recited verses from the Koran. We didn’t know what they were saying but the police told us," he said.
"These are the same people that surprised even the Nazis by rounding up Jewish children of mixed descent/faith and trucking them off to the trains in WW11."
The Nazis only asked for the adults (and that was at the behest of the French). "Les enfants aussi" the high-ranking French offical wrote on the orders to the French police.
Jews: Rounded up on French orders by French policemen and taken to Auschwitz on French trains.
Many thanks for that Sarah.
We're up to four now. Of course two of them are college papers, one of which printed a parody, below. Thanks to both of you for your commentary.
Can't imagine why we do not believe this article.
Despicable. I am so sorry for the deceased young man and his family.
It is criminal that France has no death penalty. I hope they reinstate it this week, and the scum that murdered this man all receive it swiftly. Maybe they could even reinstate the guillotine.
Which part don't you believe? The Koran recitation or the claim that it isn't an anti-Semitic hate crime?
I do not believe that muslims did not take the fact that the guy was Jewish into account. I am sick of every time a muslim is involved in a crime that the first thing out of the press or public officials mouth is that islam had nothing to do with it. Even before the crime is investigated.
I said this last year. Get the Jews out of France. It's only getting more horrible there for them. Get them out now.
Yes, I agree 100%. And I can only think of one reason they do this - they are terrified, trembling, pants wetting eunuchs and they sicken me.
Which were inspired by the chechens, the original masters of this kind of kidnapping.
My God, MarMema. I didn't click the link so I hadn't read that. The horror of that is unbearable. I would applaud if people take justice into their own hands and kill these murderers tonight.
I am afraid that if someone did this to my son I would be on the streets hunting.
It's the kind of thing you read about the chechens doing back in the late 90's, when they had human slave markets.
They used to kidnap children and videotape cutting off their fingers, send the tapes to the parents. Only they chose 3 and 6 year olds... And they rarely had a Jewish population to victimize, though there was one man who began a hostage rescue group who was Jewish, after he himself had been rescued from chechens.
Of course, if a gang of Muslims attacked blacks, the cops would do the same thing. Some "protected groups" are better than others according to the media and the pols.
I am so sickened.
I agree, if this happened to a child of mine, I would not sleep or eat until I had repaid at least part of the debt. And Muslims do this all over the world, they are not going to stop, they want to increase their butchery until we all submit.
See my links above for information on how the Jews were rescued from Chechnya and Nalchik areas. It's time for a relocation, imo.
Look how many news sources are carrying this story.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Ilan+Halimi%2C&btnG=Search+News
Deprave torture doesn't merit news.
It's not as if a Koran may have been handled disrespectfully. Or someone drew a cartoon.
If this was a case of gay bashing, the NY Times would run it as a page one story for days.
Isn't that disgusting!! I am so sickened.
Thank you. I am literally sick with anger.
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