#1 Actually, according to teevee, the gangleader may have beat it to native Ivory coast.
As for the crime's racist motive itself, the denial was rather difficult to maintain given the proofs, and so the word of "discretion" given by official jewish orgs and Dominique Galouzeau "de villepin" (who's a man, at least that's what I'm told) couldn't be maintained.
Now, msm are busy whitewashing the gang ("troubled kids", "lost boyz without limits", "a bunch of pieds nickelés/lil' rascals",...), the leader himself is supposed to be a "shy, nice kid" who turned bad in prison, you see the type...
There was a march in Ilan's memory, which sparked a few sad outbreaks of stupidity (such as right-wing jews going after north-africans who smirked, after a black, after cars,...), but even if the msm has been either quiet about that demonstration or has insisted on the violence, according to witnesses it was a sad and dignified event.
This is not the first jew senselessly killed by a muslim (at least third, IIRC), but each time it was a crime "by an unbalanced man" (like this DJ savagely slashed by a muslim "friend" who told the victim's mother right after the killing "now I've killed my jew, I'm going to Heaven"...).
There were also lots of less-reported incidents (like a "normal" gangrape in the 'hood turning into a torture session after the girl's David star necklace was spotted by the charming rapists, instead of just ending with the "youths" p*ssing on their victim like it's their - true...- habit).
Note that while this is an another "defining event" in the awakening of frenchs (???), after the march 2005 violent attack on a highschool students demonstration even the über-PC "Le Monde" had to acknowledge was motived by racial hatred, after the failed constitution, after the ramadan riots, after the cartoons jihad,..., you must still undertand there are about 500 "motiveless" violents assaults against french citizens each and every day (and 9 weapons-based assaults against teachers).
This time it's a jew, but the vast majority of victims of crimes, assaults, racial attacks,... are non-jews, and have not the "luxury" of antisemitism to help them get vindication.
By the way, Ilan was saving money to emigrate to Israel, because of France's new climate of racial tension. Sad. |
A young Jewish man who died after being kidnapped and tortured may have been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack, French officials say. Seven people are under investigation for kidnapping and "murder linked to the victim's religion". Justice Minister Pascal Clement said one of the suspects had made it clear he had attacked Ilan Halimi "because he was Jewish, and Jews are rich". The 23-year-old died on the way to hospital last week. In a case that has shocked France, the phone salesman was discovered naked, bound and gagged, and covered in burns near the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois train station near Paris. 
On Monday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin