You need to think French...
Posted on 02/22/2006 8:16:42 PM PST by Cornpone
ABIDJAN, Feb 23, 2006 (AFP) - Youssouf Fofana, suspected head of the "Gang of Barbarians" wanted for the kidnap, torture and murder of a young Jewish Frenchman near Paris, was arrested here early Thursday by Ivorian police, a source close to the inquiry told AFP.
Fofana was picked up by the judiciary police in the working-class district of Abobo in the northeast of Ivory Coast's economic capital, the source said.
The 25-year-old convicted petty criminal is of Ivorian origin. He styles himself -- in English -- as the "brain of barbarians" and is believed to have fled to the west African country last week.
Early Thursday he was in the hands of two French police detectives who arrived here on Tuesday.
French President Jacques Chirac was to attend a Jewish memorial ceremony Thursday for Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old telephone salesman who was kidnapped and murdered in what French authorities now say was a crime motivated in part by anti-Semitism.
In a sign of the affair's growing emotional impact, Chirac's office said he would attend an evening service led by Grand Rabbi Joseph Sitruk at the main Paris synagogue. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has also said he will be present.
Meanwhile several anti-racist groups joined a call from the French Council of Jewish Institutions (CRIF) for a silent march through central Paris on Sunday to condemn Halimi's killing. Chirac's ruling UMP party and the opposition Socialists both said they would send delgations.
"The act inspires a feeling of sheer horror. The kidnapping's original motivation may have been sordid criminality, but to this was added anti-Semitic prejudice," said the League for Human Rights (LIDH). Halimi went missing in late January after being apparently lured into a sex-trap. He was held and tortured for three weeks in a poor multi-ethnic suburban Paris apartment estate by a gang that sent ransom demands to his family. He died shortly after being dumped by a railway line on February 13. A total of 12 people have been placed under judicial investigation in the case, of whom six could face aggravated charges of being motivated by religious hatred. Several others were still being questioned, including the concierge of the apartment building where Halimi was held.
Hang him high !
He sounds like such a nice boy. A Baptist, right?
Excellent, I am glad they apprehended this __________(fill in the blank lest I get banned for saying it.)
Youssouf Fofana
Must be of Japanese origin....
Fona fona fo-fo-na, banana fanna fo-fo-na, me mi mo-mo-na....Fofona!
F Youssouf.
But Arabic script is not precise in the translation.
No wonder they are so "misunderstood". /sarc
Fofana----
Another follower of the Pedophile moHAMmudd (pbuh-pigshit be upon him)----
You need to think French...
Round up the usual suspects.
Why am I not assured?
Too bad it's not to be. France like the rest of the European Union gave up capital punishment as too barbaric. The word hasn't reached their Moslem citizens who still practice it but (unfortunately) won't receive it.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/afpji/20060219/060219163336.rvqfgs2q0_photo-du-chef-presume-du-gang-qui-a-torture-et-tueb.jpg
He should be made to suffer like his victim.
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