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Paris: Gang suspected of killing Jew nabbed (Muslim gang not motivated by anti-Semitism say police)
Ynet News (Israel) ^ | 19/02/06

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: france; frenchjews; frenchmuslims; ilanhalimi; jacqueschirac; muslimdeathcult; nazislamist; yousseffofana
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To: bill1952

"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.


61 posted on 02/19/2006 1:05:37 PM PST by Hannah Senesh
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To: Sarah

Many thanks for that Sarah.


62 posted on 02/19/2006 1:07:39 PM PST by Hannah Senesh
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To: Ben Chad; Sarah
The french aren't the only ones living in fear. How many newspapers in the USA have printed the mo cartoons? One?

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.


63 posted on 02/19/2006 1:11:03 PM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: Hannah Senesh
“They also recited verses from the Koran. We didn’t know what they were saying but the police told us," he said.

Can't imagine why we do not believe this article.

64 posted on 02/19/2006 1:15:19 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: dennisw

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.


65 posted on 02/19/2006 1:23:53 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Lady Heron

Which part don't you believe? The Koran recitation or the claim that it isn't an anti-Semitic hate crime?


66 posted on 02/19/2006 1:27:25 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
Sorry.

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.

67 posted on 02/19/2006 1:31:22 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Sarah; dennisw
They had castrated him, cut off his fingers, gouged out his eyes and he was still alive when they found him, only to die in the ambulance.

I said this last year. Get the Jews out of France. It's only getting more horrible there for them. Get them out now.

68 posted on 02/19/2006 1:39:39 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: Lady Heron

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.


69 posted on 02/19/2006 1:39:50 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: dervish
"Inspired by pictures from Iraq"

Which were inspired by the chechens, the original masters of this kind of kidnapping.

70 posted on 02/19/2006 1:41:27 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: MarMema

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.


71 posted on 02/19/2006 1:42:10 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Sarah
Please relay to the parents my sincere sympathies and prayers for their incredible grief and suffering.

I am afraid that if someone did this to my son I would be on the streets hunting.

72 posted on 02/19/2006 1:43:32 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: little jeremiah

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.


73 posted on 02/19/2006 1:46:47 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: Hannah Senesh
Sort of how when a group of blacks attacks a white person, the cops (even the NYPD) go out of there way to say it is not "racially motivated", while if the reverse were true, it would be in the headlines for weeks.

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.

74 posted on 02/19/2006 1:52:17 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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To: MarMema

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.


75 posted on 02/19/2006 1:54:18 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: MarMema
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76 posted on 02/19/2006 1:55:08 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: little jeremiah
Persecution of Jews in France has been escalating. The French are not doing enough to stop it.

See my links above for information on how the Jews were rescued from Chechnya and Nalchik areas. It's time for a relocation, imo.

77 posted on 02/19/2006 1:58:14 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: Hannah Senesh

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.


78 posted on 02/19/2006 2:00:19 PM PST by Sabramerican
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To: Sabramerican

Isn't that disgusting!! I am so sickened.




79 posted on 02/19/2006 2:01:49 PM PST by MarMema (Buy Danish, support freedom)
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To: MarMema

Thank you. I am literally sick with anger.


80 posted on 02/19/2006 2:02:26 PM PST by little jeremiah
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