****According to the prosecutor, however, Halimi was tortured in scenes reminiscent of the abuse of prisoners at Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib jail****
Perhaps he is speaking of the tortures that Saddam Hussein had done at Abu Gharib. If he is speaking of the tortures by Americans ,he is full of crap, as I dont think the Jewish people would have gotten too upset over a pair of panties over this fellows head.
When I was in France a few years ago, a Jewish butcher was murdered, and a school bus full of Jewish children was attacked.
Except for muttering a few platitudes, and insisting this murder had nothing to do with the deceased being Jewish I don't expect the French government to do much of anything.
I had the impression when I was there that defacing Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and attacking Jews didn't seem like it was an unusual occurrence, and that nobody seemed outraged, incensed, or otherwise too upset or shocked by it.