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Shock and outrage in France after new anti-Semitic gang attack
EJP ^ | March 5, 2008 | EJP

Posted on 03/05/2008 12:21:22 PM PST by faq

PARIS (EJP)---French officials voiced outrage Wednesday after it emerged a gang had locked up and attacked a Jewish youth in the same Paris suburb where Ilan Hamili was tortured to death two years ago.

Six youths from the southern Paris suburb of Bagneux, aged 17 to 25, are accused of locking up 19-year-old Mathieu Roumi in a storage room on February 22, beating and sexually tormenting him.

Aged 17 to 25, the six youths -- who knew the victim -- had falsely accused him of stealing from them in order to lure him into a trap, judicial sources said.

Once he arrived in the apartment of one of his aggressors, the young man was handcuffed on a radiator and beaten.

With a pen, the aggressors scrawled "dirty Jew" and "dirty faggot" on the face of their victim. Later they forced him to swallow down cigarette butts and to suck a condom on a stick. The man’s ordeal reportedly lasted nine and a half hours.

He was later hospitalised "in a state of shock". He lodged a complaint.

"We are shocked and outraged. We condemn such acts in the strongest term. Our city has values of tolerance, respect of differences, fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia," the Bagneux city hall said in a statement.

The head of the Jewish community of Bagneux, Philippe Ovadia, was to visit the young man’s family on Wednesday. The city is home of some 100 Jewish families.

The six aggressors face charges of group violence motivated by a person's "real or supposed race, religion or sexual orientation", acts of torture, blackmail and theft.

The case reminds the kidnapping of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi in 2006. The mobile phone salesman was tortured to death by a violent extorsion gang from Bagneux, an anti-Semitic crime that shocked the country.

Close to 30 people are under investigation over the killing, with the gang's ringleader, Youssef Fofana, to stand trial for murder before the end of the year.

Communist Mayor of Bagneux, Marie-Hélène Amiable, told France Info radio station that "one should not make a confusion between the two cases."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airbus; eads; france; fueltanker; islam; rop; trop

1 posted on 03/05/2008 12:21:24 PM PST by faq
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To: faq

Damned Amish.


2 posted on 03/05/2008 12:23:33 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: faq

already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980769/posts


3 posted on 03/05/2008 12:23:35 PM PST by Marko413
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To: faq

Those damn “youths”.


4 posted on 03/05/2008 12:23:39 PM PST by MarkeyD (Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
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To: faq
Just precocious koranimals.
5 posted on 03/05/2008 12:27:06 PM PST by isrul (n)
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To: faq

You reap what you sow France.


6 posted on 03/05/2008 12:27:19 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: faq

“”We are shocked and outraged. We condemn such acts in the strongest term. Our city has values of tolerance, respect of differences, fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia,” the Bagneux city hall said in a statement.”

No. Your city has the values of appeasement of and capitulation to a foreign invader... any foreign invader, actually.

As does the rest of France, your city serves as an abject lesson in what not to do if survival in the face hostile force is desired.

Also, French ideology and philosophy was never any less knee jerk anti-Jew than Germany’s. Europe as a whole is nothing but a sewer of passive aggressive hate mongering. Except, of course, when it comes to getting on their knees and sucking off the jihadi apologist propaganda spigot.


7 posted on 03/05/2008 12:29:50 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: faq

The French and other Europeans ignore the recrudescence of European anti-semitism at their peril—unless they want to relive the horrors of the past that they claim determination to avoid.


8 posted on 03/05/2008 12:36:52 PM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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“French officials voiced outrage...”

Hmm, to what extent is the outrage? Will anything be done about the perpetrators of that crime, or is the matter toooo sensitive?

For those waiting for the Geert Wilders movie, check the following website: http://www.fitnathemovie.com/

The website is not active yet. Wilders expects the movie to be ready for showing by March 28.


9 posted on 03/05/2008 12:44:38 PM PST by 353FMG (Vote for the Person who will do the least damage to our country.)
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To: faq

Maybe someone could enlighten me: where does Liberté, égalité, fraternité fit into this story?


10 posted on 03/05/2008 12:49:07 PM PST by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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“Shock and outrage in France after new anti-Semitic gang attack”

Are they outraged they didn’t kill the victim?


11 posted on 03/05/2008 12:54:06 PM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: faq

But the great new is that they and their families will soon paid by us to build our military projcets for the next thirteen years.


12 posted on 03/05/2008 12:56:33 PM PST by NoLibZone (Duncan Hunter- The very Govts unwilling to support us in the WOT got the Fuel Tanker Deal)
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To: faq

Amazing that the name of the gang, the names of any of its members, and any references to Islam are completely censored from the story.


13 posted on 03/05/2008 12:57:57 PM PST by hellbender
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To: faq

How can there be shock and outrage when this behavior has tacit approval from the government?


14 posted on 03/05/2008 1:07:01 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: faq

17 to 25? At what age do the “youth” in France reach adulthood?

And I wonder how many of these youth are named Mohammed or some such variation?


15 posted on 03/05/2008 1:13:36 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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Oh they are so outraged, but they can’t even give us any detials about the perpetrators other than the generic term “youths”.


16 posted on 03/05/2008 1:30:21 PM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: faq

They could just deport all members of the cult of death, and then the anti semitism would stop.


17 posted on 03/05/2008 1:48:17 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Right.
Soon France will be worse than Florida in Term of antisemite violence!


18 posted on 03/10/2008 12:38:57 AM PDT by darkness78 (y)
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