Posted on 02/19/2006 8:06:51 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl
PARIS - The mother of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was abducted, tortured and murdered by a gang in a suburb of the capital, accuses the police of missteps that led to her son's death.
She revealed to Haaretz Sunday that the police told the family to ignore the gang's attempts to contact them for five critical days, after which Ilan was found near death outside the city. She also accuses the police of ignoring the anti-Semitic motivation in the case in order not to alienate Muslims.
"If Ilan hadn't been Jewish, he wouldn't have been murdered," she says. Friends and relatives came to the family home in the 12th arondissement to pay their respects. Ilan lived in the apartment with his mother Ruth, and sisters Yael and Anne-Laure; their father lives elsewhere.
The family came to France from Morocco 25 years ago. Ruth says that Ilan recently began talking about immigrating to Israel.
"He only wanted to work a little first to save up money for the trip," she said, her voice breaking.
The Jewish community of Paris is still in shock over Halimi's abduction and murder, which began when a gang sent an attractive woman to entice him into a date.
"The last time I saw my son was on Friday, February 20, right before he left for the date," Ruth related. "He wanted to go out with friends but they canceled so he decided to go out with that woman. On Saturday night he called and said he had been kidnapped, and asked us to check our e-mail," she continued.
The family found a scanned image of Ilan, his eyes covered and a gun pointed at his head.
"The message said, '450,000 euros or call the funeral home,'" Yael related.
The family contacted the police, which stationed officers outside their home and started investigating. For three weeks the kidnappers negotiated with Ruth, with Ilan's father, with a former girlfriend and with figures in the Jewish community. They used e-mail and mobile phones, which led the police to them, but they eluded capture.
"Eight days before Ilan was killed," Ruth revealed, "the police tried to arrest one of the suspects in an Internet cafe but they simply were unable to get him." According to Ilan's sister, the suspect warned the others that the police were closing in.
Ruth says the police told the family to stop communicating by phone with the kidnappers in order to force them to use e-mail again. "Five days before Ilan was found, the police told us, 'Don't answer the phone, don't repond to text messages.' We saw dozens of calls and ignored them. On Thursday they found Ilan dead."
Members of Ilan's family blame themselves for listening to the police.
"Maybe if we'd answered the phone Ilan wouldn't have been murdered," they say.
Ilan's family also expresses anger over the police refusal to recognize the anti-Semitic motives behind the crime.
"We told them there were at least three [previous] attempts to abduct young Jews," Ruth says, "but they insisted the motive was purely criminal."
"They're afraid to reignite the confrontation with the Muslims," Halimi's uncle says.
"We know that a few months ago a 16-year-old Jewish girl was kidnapped," the family says, "but her parents decided not to go to the police and paid 100,000 euros in ransom."
The Halimis say they did not have that kind of money.
This is the kind of stuff that happens in countries where you can't legally carry a firearm. Let those thugs try that crap in Florida, Texas, or Virginia!
How dare they ignore common sense right in their face?
How can they say the fact the victim was Jewish had nothing to do with this crime???
Just like churches being burnt in the U.S., the French play ignorant in the face of hate crimes. Don't want to upset the applecart.
France runs public service announcements telling people to not be anti-semitic.
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The police also denyed the Brooklyn Bridge shooting attack, in which an Arab fired at a pair of vans containing Hasidic teenagers (one of whom was put into a coma) was "road rage" not a "hate crime."
The ROP strikes again. And the Frenchie media are in denial mode. They denied the facts behind the riots, they deny there is a real war going on, and they deny any and all other facts related to the ROP.
I guess the riots were not enough of a "bite in the butt". I hate to think what it's going to take to wake up the Surrender Monkeys....
Sickening. I am beyond disgusted.
The only thing that cures mad dogs is a bullet. The only thing that will stop humans who act like mad dogs is physical pain and/or death. Talk is cheap and not only will do nothing, it will cause harm. Talk give them more time do prepare, plan and enact evil.
Jihadis and Muslims who plan, talk about and enact evil need to be put down like the mad dogs that they are.
When Osama Bin Laden's cohorts-led by El Sayeed Nosair-declared jihad on this country with the assassination of Rebbe Meir Kahane they should have realized that a holy war had commenced.
Instead, these bumbling, stumbling Keystone cops-who we've all come to know and despise-treated it like any other ordinary murder.
The result?
Nearly three thousand innocent Americans dead and the World Trade Center obliterated.
The bungling of the investigation into the Rashid Boz attack is another trademark case of post-Hoover incompetence and ineptitude at that agency.
The only consolation is that the City Council was able to name a memorial ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge after Ari Halberstam, victim of Islamic terror.
At least the rat-faced, fetid, Koran-thumping swine that planned-or at the very least, rejoiced in-those attacks are forced to see the name of the the yeshiva student they murdered coming to and from Manhattan before they scurry back into their little rat's warren at al-Farooq Mosque.
The 'moderate' Moos better deal with their blood-lusting brethren before a reverse-holocaust comes knocking. Much of the free world is fed up to the gills with the Death Cult for World Takeover now.
Incorrect data in the article. He was missing since January 20, and was found near death a few days ago. Those rotten bast***s had him for close to 3 weeks or so.
French Jews should emigrate asap.
That's all you need to know.
Unless Islamic immigration is severely curtailed, and Islam confronted, all infidels will eventually run out of places to escape to as TROP attempts to take over.
Watching many of your posts on Judaica of all angles, I have to say this. IMO, it is time for Jews to leave Europe. A ditty about laying down with fleas comes to mind. Seriously, what Jew in his right mind and who has children would stay there? Now that they have learned this kidnapping trick, watch for it to grow. Again, a note to all Jews. TELL YOUR BRETHERN TO LEAVE EUROPE, DO IT NOW.
Yes, you are right, and it will take only a few more incidents of things getting blown up and innocent people murdered before a reaction finally sets in. We are told that even worms finally turn.
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