Posted on 02/20/2006 1:04:09 PM PST by Hannah Senesh
Anti-Semitism may have played a role in the torture and murder of a young Jewish man who was kidnapped and held for ransom, French authorities said Monday.
Authorities found 23-year-old Ilan Halimi naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks last Monday near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris. He died on the way to a hospital, officials said.
Justice Minister Pascal Clement, speaking to reporters outside an annual meeting of France's main Jewish umbrella group, CRIF, confirmed investigators had alleged "aggravated circumstances of anti-Semitism."
One 19-year-old suspect was placed under investigation - a step short of formal charges - and locked up for suspected kidnapping and association with a group intending to kill, judicial officials said on condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing.
That suspect, however, was not accused with Halimi's killing.
Five other suspects also placed under investigation were expected to appear later Monday.
Anti-Semitism blamed for Paris murder By Yossi Lempkowicz and Shirli Sitbon 20/Feb/2006 12:24
French Jewish community security sources have joined the family of murdered Paris Jew Ilan Halimi in blaming anti-Semitism for the killing.
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/6025
Thousand people in Paris demand justice for Ilan Halimi
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/france/5986
A brutal, vicious torture-murder, and they're only holding one of the perps?
We ALL know there is no anti-semitism in France....
Wonder what his name is...Muhammad?
This is impossible! The only discrimination in France is against Muslims...
Those silly Muslim youth...
Hooey, you sure can't put anything over on those French cops, nosirree.
Yesterday's post on this subject at FreeRepublic:
Paris: Gang suspected of killing Jew nabbed (Muslim gang not motivated by anti-Semitism say police)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581534/posts
Gee, ya think?
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Gosh, you think it might?
Let foxman decide
if the murder is by a protcted minority its not Anti-semitic.
if its by a non-protected group-i.e. white christian it is anti-semitic
"One the one hand, I suspect that if it were muzzies, a statement would come out guaranteeing that there was no anti semitism involved."
1) The gang involved is Muslim.
2) If you check out the other links I posted above, you'll see that despite the evidence and the protests of the Jewish community, the police have maintained that anti-Semitism was not a factor in the murder.
"Let foxman decide
if the murder is by a protcted minority its not Anti-semitic.
if its by a non-protected group-i.e. white christian it is anti-semitic"
And what would you call a person who reads about a brutal murder of a Jewish man and then decides it's not about Jews at all but "white christians"?
The original investigation was led by Inspecteur Jacques Clouseau.
A trief eating liberal Jewish kapo-
i.e. foxman et al
Islam is evil.
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