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Parisians forced to recognize evil within |
2006-02-26 |
She could not stop thinking about Ilan Halimi. And when Marie-Beatrice thought about the young Jewish man tortured to death by her neighbors during 24 days of squalid captivity in the basement a few floors below her apartment, she could not stop crying. "I try not to blame myself, but I can't avoid it," said the weary 46-year-old, wrapped in a purple bathrobe after work Friday. "It happened next door, and I can't believe it happened. I would want to tell Ilan that if we'd heard his suffering, we would have reported it. I tell myself that Ilan surely must have thought there was noise, people lived upstairs. And he hoped someone would hear. I imagine him in the boiler room, and I want to ask him to forgive me." Marie-Beatrice sat alone with her guilt in the aging, 11-story apartment block on Prokofiev Street in this working-class immigrant enclave on the southern edge of Paris. On a table was a summons from the police, who are canvassing neighbors to have them testify about anything they witnessed during Halimi's recent ordeal. |
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#7 Me thinks the lady does protest too much. |
Posted by: Uneregum Thromoling6246 2006-02-26 16:10 |
#6 ChIrak, vous apaisâtes trop. |
Posted by: Korora 2006-02-26 15:22 |
#5 France, you're almost gone. You've been feeding on the toxic poison of socialism for far too long. Re-arm yourselves. Make these asshats disappear, one by one. |
Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-02-26 12:29 |
#4 "I want to address myself to his mother and ask her forgiveness," she said. "I didn't do anything, see anything, hear anything." A little TOO guilt-wracked for my taste. Sounds like she's trying to convince herself more than anyone else. I bet she knows she heard plenty, but did nothing.... hypocrit. |
Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-02-26 12:26 |
#3 a baseball bat execution in the streets would tend to send a message. |
Posted by: Al Capone 2006-02-26 11:36 |
#2 Yep Jules. The firemen are on the roof. |
Posted by: 6 2006-02-26 11:34 |
#1 "And several deny being anti-Semitic. But they admit setting out to kidnap Jews, prosecutors say..." Dizzying self-ignorance. |
Posted by: Jules 2006-02-26 10:23 |