Anti-Semitic Kidnapping, Torture, Murder in Paris

Haaretz, via No Paseran:

PARIS - The mother of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was abducted, tortured and murdered by a gang in a suburb of the capital, accuses the police of missteps that led to her son's death. She revealed to Haaretz yesterday that the police told the family to ignore the gang's attempts to contact them for five critical days, after which Ilan was found near death outside the city. She also accuses the police of ignoring the anti-Semitic motivation in the case in order not to alienate Muslims.

"If Ilan hadn't been Jewish, he wouldn't have been murdered," she says.....

"We told them - there were at least three [previous] attempts to abduct young Jews," Ruth says, "but they insisted the motive was purely criminal."

"They're afraid to reignite the confrontation with the Muslims," Halimi's uncle says.

"We know that a few months ago a 16-year-old Jewish girl was kidnapped," the family says, "but her parents decided not to go to the police and paid 100,000 euros in ransom."

I suppose we should be thankful they didn't cut off his head while rolling tape. Maybe then it would be all over the networks. CNN might have to pixelate everyone's faces though. Or maybe they could just have an artist do a rendering of it, to spare our sensibilities.....I guess not, it might be mistaken for a cartoon.