Three alarming alarming reports have arrived with regard the
lynching of the young Jewish Frenchman Halimi, who was found
mutilated and dying on February 13 in Paris.
All of the perpetrators are not yet apprehended, though some 20
of the accused so far hail from one suburb that is notorious for
drugs and crime. Not all are Moslems, not all are poor, not all are
ill-educated, not all our from North Africa. The ringleader has
parents from Francophone Ivory Coast, and is said to have travelled
to Ivory Coast to use email and telephones in some fashion to avoid
detection by the French authorities. The motive for ransom is now
discounted. The crime looks to have been sadism, racism, a blunt
inhumanity, and is related in unexplained ways to the rioting that
burned tens of thousand of cars last fall. The unbelievable report
that Halimi's parents were called in the course of the ordeal, read
passages from the Koran, and allowed to hear the screams of their
child in the background is now confirmed.
Sarkozy, law and order candidate for the French presidency, now
names the crime as anti-Semtism. The elite French media is
horrified and tardily vigorous. There is also a report that
Palestinian literature was found in one of the suspects'
location.
The French ambassador to the United States is speaking in full
defensive mode that there will be an official investogation in
addition to the criminal investigation.
Dreyfus, Vichy, Arafat appeasement, Saddam Hussein, HizbAllah
collusion, the French government record is soaked with
anti-Semitism and dishonor.
topics:
Law, Africa
