tags: anti-semitism, muslim/mideast suspects, burned body, kidnap, torture, France, arab victim, Paris, random, conviction, 27 accused, one victim, many suspects, Honeypot , lured for sex
1 murdered, 27 accused perpetrators January 21, 2006 Murder of Ilan Halimi for Anti-Semitism in France Ilan Halimi (Hebrew: אילן חלימי, Arabic: ایلان حلیمی) was a young French Jewish man of Moroccan descent who was kidnapped and held for ransom on 21 January 2006 by a group of African immigrants called the Gang of Barbarians and subsequently tortured, over a period of three weeks, resulting in his death. Halimi was lured by an attractive customer, a seventeen-year-old girl who called herself Yalda[4] (of French-Iranian origin),[5] to an apartment block in the Parisian banlieues.[6] There Halimi was overwhelmed by a youth gang and kept prisoner for twenty-four days. The woman who later turned herself in was Audrey L., a retirement home nurse, has been involved in several "honeypot" operations before but had never quite realized what they were all about. According to one witness, verses from the Koran were recited while Halimi was tortured. When Ilan was found barely alive, he was naked, handcuffed, and bleeding profusely, and incapable of speaking. His entire body - or "80% of it," according to police - had been butchered. He died of his wounds on the way to the hospital only minutes after being found.
He had burns over 80% of his body. He was the first French Jew murdered after WWII simply because he was Jewish. His killers told police they had targeted him specifically because he was Jewish, and after failing to extort money from his family, who could not afford the ransom, they murdered him. His murder is viewed by French Jews as a symbol of the alarming and escalating levels of anti-Semitism in France
The affair of the Gang of Barbarians (in French: l'affaire du gang des barbares), was a kidnapping and torture case that gripped and shocked France both because of the fear of resurgence of antisemitism (because the crime was motivated by antisemitism and money[1]) and also because of the vicious nature of the crime committed. A total of 27 people were accused as implicated in the crime and were tried for kidnapping and murder in 2009. Gang leader Youssouf Fofana (born 1980 in Paris to immigrants from Côte d'Ivoire) was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 22 years. Others received shorter prison sentences, some suspended, and three were acquitted. While Fofana's life sentence was definite, 14 of the 27 verdicts were appealed by the prosecution.[2] The convictions were upheld on appeal in December 2010.[3] At the heart of the gang was an inner circle of Muslim-African criminals.The lesser partners were Muslim Maghrebines or Christian whites.
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New York Sun Tale of Torture and Murder Horrifies the Whole of France By MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Special to the Sun | February 22, 2006 The brutal abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of African immigrants called the Barbarians...The murder of a 23-year-old cell-phone salesman, Ilan Halimi, took place over three weeks, during which he was tortured while his captors tried to extract a ransom from his family...Halimi was lured to his death by a woman he had met in his telephone store. They met up late on the night of January 20 in one of Paris's southern suburbs, Bagneux, on what he thought was a date...The next day, his parents received an e-mail telling them their son had been abducted and would be released on payment of about $540,000. In order to convince Halimi's parents their son had been kidnapped, the abductors borrowed a trick from Islamist kidnappers who abduct Westerners in the Middle East: They sent a picture of the young man being threatened by a gun and holding a newspaper to prove the date and time... More e-mail demands and pictures of Halimi were sent to his parents in subsequent days. The family reported the kidnapping to the Parisian police, who advised them to begin bargaining with their son's captors. At one time the abductors agreed to lower their ransom to about $120,000, then even dropped their demand to $60,000...
There are precedents of Islamist terrorists luring young non-Muslims to their deaths, often over the Internet offering the prospect of sex or romance. A few years ago an Israeli teenager near Ramallah, Israel, was murdered after falling for such a ruse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/world/middleeast/israel-releases-names-of-477-prisoners-to-be-freed-in-trade.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Those being freed include the founders of Hamas’s armed wing and militants who kidnapped and killed Israeli soldiers and civilians. A mastermind of the 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizzeria that killed 15 will walk out of prison, as will a woman who used the Internet to lure a lovesick Israeli teenager to a Palestinian city and had him murdered.
http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/uri-avnery-on-gilad-shalit-the-real-story Some of these prisoners have assisted suicide bombers in killing a lot of people. Some have committed really atrocious acts – like the pretty young Palestinian woman who used the internet to lure a love-sick Israeli boy of 15 into a trap, where he was riddled with bullets. But others were sentenced to life for belonging to an “illegal organization” and possessing arms, or for throwing an ineffectual home made bomb at a bus hurting nobody.
different honeypot trap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8070877.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8070877.stm Girl admits luring boy to death Shakilus Townsend bShakilus Townsend was repeatedly stabbed in south London
A teenage girl lured a boy to a block of flats where he was stabbed to death, a court has heard.
Shakilus Townsend, 16, was beaten and killed by members of a gang in Thornton Heath, south London, in July last year, the Old Bailey was told. The girl told the court she went along with the "honey trap" plot after her boyfriend asked her to set Shakilus up, but she had not wanted him stabbed. The girl, 16, who cannot be named, and six males deny murder. The girl claimed she did not realise Shakilus would be seriously hurt, the court was told. Gang attack She said she was in love with her 18-year-old boyfriend, Danny McLean, and that he became angry after he found out she was also seeing Shakilus.
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Aug 2, 2014 - This article originally appeared in Ami Magazine. Little did Ilan Halimiknow that day that the customer walking into the cellphone store where ...Little did Ilan Halimi know that day that the customer walking into the cellphone store where he worked as a salesman would be the agent of his death. The young woman looked around at the merchandise, asked questions and engaged him in friendly conversation. They hit it off so well that before leaving, she asked Ilan for his phone number.The next evening Ilan received a call from his new acquaintance, inviting him out for a drink. Only 23 years old, Ilan had no suspicions. He was ambushed by a gang of thugs, held prisoner in an apartment in the Bagneux neighborhood of Paris for 24 days and tortured until they finally abandoned him in a forest. When Ilan was found, he had burns over 80% of his body. He was the first French Jew murdered after WWII simply because he was Jewish.“Don’t you see?” I plead with the police. “They contacted a rabbi because he’s a Jew. Don’t you recognize that this is an anti-Semitic act?” But the authorities will have none of it.
January 30
Ilan’s situation, we later learn, has taken a turn for the worse. The concierge of the building notifies the kidnappers that they will have to vacate the apartment. He has orders to paint it for the next tenant. Fofana returns to France from the Ivory Coast especially to transport Ilan somewhere else. Covered in a blanket, he is carried on the kidnappers’ shoulders to a nearby cellar. It is colder in there than in the flat. He is under the watch of ten guards between the ages of 17 and 23, most of them converts to Islam. They were promised the whole thing would take three days and they’d make some quick money. “I wanted to buy myself new clothes,” said one gang member during his interrogation. Now, they are annoyed. Ten days have passed and they are still stuck with Ilan, who bears the brunt of their frustration. They kick him and burn him with cigarettes, each one inventing a different kind of torture. “Even an animal isn’t treated that way,” the police later say.
By now the police know that the man in charge is using a different Internet café each time. Four hundred men are mobilized to catch the perpetrator. To me, it is abundantly clear that this is an anti-Semitic act and that I should shout out the truth and alert the press. But I do what the police tell me.
Around this time the local police stop a black man on the streets of Paris whose name is Youssouf Fofana. They have no idea about the kidnapping because it is all being handled secretly. They return his papers to him. How he must have laughed! How powerful he must have felt!
January 30
Ilan’s situation, we later learn, has taken a turn for the worse. The concierge of the building notifies the kidnappers that they will have to vacate the apartment. He has orders to paint it for the next tenant. Fofana returns to France from the Ivory Coast especially to transport Ilan somewhere else. Covered in a blanket, he is carried on the kidnappers’ shoulders to a nearby cellar. It is colder in there than in the flat. He is under the watch of ten guards between the ages of 17 and 23, most of them converts to Islam. They were promised the whole thing would take three days and they’d make some quick money. “I wanted to buy myself new clothes,” said one gang member during his interrogation. Now, they are annoyed. Ten days have passed and they are still stuck with Ilan, who bears the brunt of their frustration. They kick him and burn him with cigarettes, each one inventing a different kind of torture. “Even an animal isn’t treated that way,” the police later say.
By now the police know that the man in charge is using a different Internet café each time. Four hundred men are mobilized to catch the perpetrator. To me, it is abundantly clear that this is an anti-Semitic act and that I should shout out the truth and alert the press. But I do what the police tell me.
Around this time the local police stop a black man on the streets of Paris whose name is Youssouf Fofana. They have no idea about the kidnapping because it is all being handled secretly. They return his papers to him. How he must have laughed! How powerful he must have felt!
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L'Affaire Ilan Halimi - documentaire complet 2014 - YouTube
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