[ April 17, 2024 ]
One teenage gang member admitted having put out a cigarette on Halimi’s face “because he didn’t like Jews.”
Longtime Atlas readers are painfully aware of the savage murder of the French Jewish young man, Ilan Halimi (previous Atlas coverage here).
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Tonight, Friday evening (shabbat), the verdict was read, a repeat of July 2009, when the verdict was also read "in a show of disrespect for the family of Ilan Halimi, victim of the most atrocious anti-Semitic crime committed in France since World War II," on a Friday night—the Sabbath.
The 2009 verdict was such a gross miscarriage of justice, Justice Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie instructed the prosecutor to appeal the verdict in the Gang of Barbarians case. A new trial was scheduled.
Ilan Halimi was targeted, tortured for weeks and murdered because he was Jewish. The murder of Ilan Halimi can only be described as an unspeakable horror, and yet typical of the rising Islamic Jew-hatred and violence against the Jews. A group calling itself the Muslim Barbarians targeted Jewish men for torture and murder. Their first attempts to kidnap a Jew were unsuccessful, despite the lure of a beautiful girl. Ilan Halimi was not so lucky. He did not escape the Islamic homemade concentration camp the Muslim Barbarians had set up. The banality of evil lived in that apartment building. Apartment dwellers, all Muslims, heard Ilan's screams and cries of torture over a period of three weeks, and yet did not call the cops. The screams must have been loud because the torture was especially atrocious: the thugs cut bits of flesh off the young man. They cut his fingers and ears. They burned him with acid. They poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire. Not only did those in the building not go to the police — they did nothing at all. Worse, many took part in the tortures.
After weeks of systematic and unspeakable cruelty:
On February 11, four days after the abductors stopped communicating with the family, Halimi was found, still alive, not far from a railway line at Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, about 15 kilometers south of Bagneux. He was naked, handcuffed, and bleeding profusely. He was 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, just a few minutes after he was discovered. New York Sun here.
Tonight, Nidra Poller is in Paris covering the verdict for Atlas readers.
Verdict in the Gang of Barbarians appellate court trial Paris December 17, 2010
Nidra Poller
The verdict in the appeals trial of 17 members of the Gang of Barbarians, guilty in diverse degrees of luring, kidnapping, and torturing Ilan Halimi, was announced this Friday evening. Ilan Halimi’s mother, sisters, and brother-in-law, who are observant Jews, could not be in court to hear the verdict handed down two hours after the beginning of shabat.. The verdict in the lower court trial had been rendered at 10 PM on Friday July 13, 2009.
Jail terms were increased for seven of the seventeen defendants; the other ten were unchanged. The defense lawyers were exasperated. “All of this for nothing!” If it were nothing more than a few years added to the prison terms of seven defendants, one might be tempted to agree that it was not worth two and a half months of hearings at great expense of time, effort, and public funds. The plaintiffs’ lawyers, on the contrary, were deeply satisfied. Why? This time, they say, the presiding judge organized the hearings in such a way that the full weight of the ordeal in all its horror was rendered. The mastermind Youssouf Fofana, who called himself the “Brain of the Barbarians,” was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ilan Halimi, with aggravating circumstances of anti-Semitism. After the public prosecutor appealed the lower court verdict for the seventeen defendants, Fofana interjected an appeal on his own behalf. And then withdrew it. He was expected to appear in court, however, as a witness. But he created so many disturbances in the first days of hearings that the judge refrained from summoning him thereafter. In the absence of Fofana, whose unrepentant vice had dominated the first trial, the vices of the other defendants were, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs, brought to light.
If, as the defense lawyers would have us believe, the aim of the retrial was to radically increase the severity of the punishment, the whole operation could be seen as futile. The trial, once more, was held behind closed doors—without any media presence– on the grounds that two of the defendants were under eighteen when the crime was committed. Elsa Vigoureux, who writes a blog for Le Nouvel Observateur weekly, covered the lower court trial in great detail… from one side. Her blog was based almost exclusively on information slipped to her from defense lawyers. She told me, in a private conversation, that she also had the file of the investigation (which is supposed to be made available to a very limited number of people involved in the case).
This time, lawyers for the plaintiffs decided to inform certain journalists, primarily from a Jewish radio station, Radio J. And Ms. Vigoureux showed far less interest in the case. Could we say that the lower court trial was a smokescreen and the appeals trial a sincere attempt to render justice based on a thorough examination of the facts and the personalities involved, revealing the extent of their cruelty and the twisted nature of their minds? The picture that emerges this time is consistent with the horrors endured by Ilan Halimi, held prisoner for 24 days in a makeshift death camp. His jailors and tormentors could not hide, this time, behind a sociological screen… wayward youths manipulated by a monster. The monstrosity of each and every one came to light.
Behind closed doors. The next step is to make those truths public, with the help of those who defended the victims of the Gang of Barbarians.
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19 Comments
13 years ago
When will they charge and try all the people living in and around that apartment building? Or have all of them disappeared to other part of Paris?
13 years ago
Just goes to show that moderate muslims are almost non-existant. What a bunch of pathetic sickos.
13 years ago
This is just horrible. How can there be so many sickos out there? What souless criminals. “If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me you who are bloodthirsty!” PSALM 139:19
13 years ago
In fact in France, there is a law that stipulate you will be prosecuted or sued for “non assistance a des personnes en danger”, which means that you can be prosecuted for not helping somebody in danger. You have the legal obligation to help somebody in danger.
How come the prosecution did not make use of this law in Ilan Halimi’s case???
I wonder if the defense could have pushed for it or sued themselves on behalf of Ilan?
13 years ago
Is depraved indifferance a crime in france? If so then inhabitants of that building should be deported.
Personally I believe in cases of religiously motivated crimes the Mosque and Imam they went to is at fault for, at the very least, indoctrinating them in hate. The Mosque they went to should be closed down and everyone of significance who worked there summarily deported if from abroad or incarcerated if born in the host country. I know it’s draconian but it will cut down on anti semetic/christian/europian violence if the priests will be hurt by the results of their preaching.
13 years ago
What kind of defense could they even mount. That the guy did it to himself? Or the classic defense for a group activity; they were there but they didn’t take part and were too scared of the others to do anything about it.
13 years ago
More proof of how Islam must be stopped.
13 years ago
Like in England, the “human” rights of the evil doers are more important to the judiciary!!
http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/2010/12/aso-mohammed-ibrahim-wins-appeal-to.html
This is the Fourth Reich/EU!!
13 years ago
pamela, friends:
it is, in and of itself, barbarity that a society cannot bring itself to exact the death penalty upon those who would commit such a crime.
i practiced law for 25 years, the greater portion in the prosecution and defense of criminals and of criminal acts. i prosecuted and defended murders, though was not qualified to defend “death penalty” cases.
it is my view that good and evil exist, are palpable, and the evil lurks in the hearts of men and women. and, the evil must be fought, defeated, and that on certain occasions those who visit it upon others must and should be destroyed.
hard decisions are involved. it is immoral to shirk from them.
in this case, not to have destroyed the perpetrators of this crime is immoral, cowardly and craven: no purpose is served by allowing them to live.
when evil such as this avoids the ultimate sanction of death, it simply informs the rest of society that none of them are sufficiently worthwhile, sufficiently worth protecting, in order to justify removing this evil from their midst. it says to them, pay your money, take your chances, live in the risk that this evil will not be visited upon you, and cower in your corner at its prospect.
the killers, the torturers, the sadistic profaners of life, … , the persons who took good from us in the battered person of ilan halimi should be executed.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
13 years ago
Another disgusting example of the ideological redardation of Islam and its followers. Any decent person who lived in that tower block could have called the police from a public pay phone at any time yet hundreds of Muslims decided to listen to a young innocent Man being tortured for no other reason that he was Jewish. Anyone reading this, consider how many minutes you would listen to someone being tortured before calling the police. The slowest to react would be measured in seconds and minutes. This scum sad in the state funded flats minute after minute, hour after hour for a whole month and still not a single one called the cops. In my block everyone would have called the cops.
The Quran teaches them we are not innocent, we are infidels and kaffur and not really people. It is because the victim was not muslim that no call was made. They rampage across the globe at the thought of a book maybe being burnt. But sit back and listen to torture. If they call that culture. I call it cancer.
I dare not type what my mind thinks about such things, suffice to say my solution would deal with this problem and ensure that it did not occur again. By taking the necessary steps to ensure it cannot be repeated by the moon worshiping tribes that infest Western Society.
Persecution is when you commit acts of violence against a non violent minority based on their religion or race because you are hating a stereotypical idea. However to take violent action against a violent invading horde of thugs is called self defence and it is human nature. anyone who does not have this mechanism died out along time ago for that very fact. Survival and self preservation must trump idealogical dreaming of world peace for all man kind.
If this was 6ft Blonde Vikings invading Frace and Europe the army would be sent out. But Because it is barbaric acts by ethnic minorities who play the race and religious freedom card by having the European states employ human Rights lawyers at said states expense to defend the human rights they are getting away with it.
A current example: Jullian Assange whether you like what he does or not will without doubt be extradited to the USA to face charges. He is a journalist. YET Abu Hamza actively send Jihadist killers, has wounds from bomb making gone wrong. He has the full protection of UK courts, $1 Million dollar house in London for his Wife and 6 kids, (1 in jail for terrorism in Eqypt) $100,000 dollar make over this year to said house. All at the disgusted UK tax payers expense because we must protect his Human Rights accoring to the EU court. What utter fools we are.
He is not the only one. In the UK is you are a murdering Jihadist we cannot extradide you incase you are harmed in the country you committed the killing.
Government should represent the people. They should protect the people. Not pander to killers who wish to destroy us.
(Sorry, I got distracted by my rising anger at another injustice to innocent and more protection for immigrant cancer of islam, I hope you can get my point)
We decent people are the majority, the elitist left can sit in circles pretending we live in an all embracing world if they want but their primary function is to protect the people from harm and danger.
Both your government and our previous government have failed this.
13 years ago
Muslim dogs who are given the privilege of living in the West must toe the line and leave their barbaric upbringing behind them. Failure to do so must result in deportation. Muslims bring their primitive hatred with them which puts them in the category of mad dogs.
13 years ago
Absolutely correct. As a fellow attorney, may i suggest a good place to start would be correcting the ignorant statement that the commandment is “Thou shalt not kill.” The correct translation is “Thou shalt not murder.” Executions in defense of civilization are as legitimate as any other act of self defense. The French must know that more than one innocent young Jew died as a result of their hospitality to barbarism. Whatever is left of French honor after the revelations of the last 60-odd years is gone as well. To think that once Gaul was the home of warriors. Julius Caesar would be ever so surprised to know that his descriptions could use some updates.
13 years ago
“Just goes to show that moderate muslims are almost non-existant.”
That’s the point, isn’t it. The slaughter, the bloodthirstiness, the barbarity and subhumanity – that IS moderate Islam.
13 years ago
Muslims seem to be excempt from this law. In fact, there are literally NO-GO zones for non-muslims in Paris (and other French cities). The law enforcers are either frightened or disempowered, the media are either submissive – calling those arab muslims “disadvantaged youth of the suburbs” or “politically correct”, and whoever speaks up gets bullied by the left, threatened with fatwa or silenced by other means. The Islamisation of France is well, well advanced, alas.
13 years ago
Anyone who wants some background to this:
http://inthefrozennorth.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/ilan-halimi-a-murder-in-france/
13 years ago
The time of the reading of the verdict (after Shabbat began) may have been deliberately chosen to keep the peace after the hearing ended. In other words the court may have known in advance that Parisian Jews would not be satisfied with the sentence.
13 years ago
I agree, yet I doubt their intention was to keep peace, as the Jews are not the violent ones. I think that releasing the verdict at this hour was just another overt disrespect to Jews … any Jew (regardless of nationality) considering leisure travel to France should reconsider.
7 years ago
I am still very heart-broken about what happened to Ilan Halimi a long time ago. Those evil Muslim thugs will definitely go to hell.
7 years ago
Ilan Halimi was very beautiful to look at. He was a besautiful soul. Seems to me a great jealousy occurred in Fofana who is very unattractive, to torture and kill Ilan encouraging the rest to follow in his footsteps of barbarism. In the way Ilam was tortured by the barbarians, was to disfigure Ilan’s beauty. G-d of Israel will take his vengeance on them for sure. Ilan is one of G-d’s chosen now and into eternity. Amen. Ilan’s beauty is forever.
