The plate placed in Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine) city of his ordeal, in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Jew killed in 2006 by the “gang of barbarians”, was found broken, most likely after an act of vandalism that caused outrage Sunday.
This is an email received late Saturday afternoon that the mayor of Bagneux, Marie-Hélène Amiable, heard the news: a walker of the Richelieu Park, in the center of the city, sending him the photo of the broken plate.
“Ilan Halimi, a victim of the barbaric, anti-Semitism and racism” could be read on the stele, nestling at the foot of a young oak planted at a ceremony Commemoration in 2011, after the trial of the gang of barbarians, whose chief, Youssouf Fofana, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
She then asks a municipal officer remove and Sunday morning will complain. Following an investigation for “malicious damage” was opened and entrusted to the police of Bagneux, said the prosecutor in Nanterre AFP
“There are currently no item identification, “said the prosecutor, who believes that degradation” appears to be a voluntary act “without being” completely affirmative “.
Marie-Hélène Amiable said she was” extremely shocked “by this act “outrageous and unacceptable”.
“The plaque will be changed as soon as possible on Monday,” she has told AFP. “For our city, it is a very strong symbol.” The police, whom Hall brought the plate, “for now lean for throwing stones,” she confided.
In this communist bastion of Hauts-de-Seine, she has directed since 2004, Ms. Amiable assured in a statement “the family of Ilan Halimi and the Jewish community of Bagneux – home to about fifty Jewish families – of (its) sympathy and (sa) without vigilance flaw face of such acts. “
It is in a popular city of Ilan Halimi city was tortured for three weeks after being abducted. The young seller of mobile phones, 23, was found dying near a railway track in Essonne, naked, gagged and handcuffed. He died during his transfer to the hospital
-. The family had chosen Ilan Israel –
Since the announcement of this very likely deliberate damage, reactions are accumulated.
“Whatever the causes of this degradation, (…) it is a shock to the family and friends of Ilan Halimi,” said a statement from the Minister for Interior Bernard Cazeneuve, who assured them of his “determination that the survey allows faster than any light be shed”.
On Twitter, where the hashtag #IlanHalimi was one of the shared Sunday Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his “dismay”. “The barbarism which he suffered was not enough. Intransigence face of such acts. Thoughts for his family,” said the former president.
“Destroy the plaque in honor #IlanHalimi is a shame. Let us honor his memory by redoubling his determination in the face of anti-Semitism, “responded for his part Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, first secretary of the Socialist Party.
At the initiative in 2013 of” Price Ilan Halimi against anti-Semitism “, the departmental advisor PS Essonne Jérôme Guedj sent to the social network’s thoughts” Ruth – Ilan’s mother – her sisters. ”
Jack Lang, on Radio J, expressed his “disgust”. “It’s disgusting, there anti-Semitism in our country that is strong enough,” said the president of the Arab World Institute, calling for “an education revolution.”
for burial, Ruth Halimi, the mother of Ilan, Israel had preferred to France. She thought that “at least there his son could rest in peace. Unfortunately she fears were justified,” lamented on BFM TV Francis Szpiner, the lawyer of the family.
For him, Youssouf Fofana was “the forerunner of” Amédy Coulibaly, who killed four Jewish early January in a kosher store in Paris.
03/05/2015 5:09:21 p.m. – Bagneux (AFP) – By Alexandre HIELARD – AFP © 2015
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