Monday, May 4th, 2009...1:51 am
Murder Trial Puts Focus on French Anti-Semitism
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(Photo: People gather at the entrance of an audience room in a french court to yell at relatives of Youssouf Fofana, accused of killing a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi.) The murder of Ilan Halimi was an anti-Semitic crime. That fact, with which virtually everyone in France now concurs, was established at the opening of the trial this week in Paris of the self-styled “Gang of Barbarians” charged with kidnapping, torturing and then killing the young Jewish man. And although acknowledging Halimi’s death as a hate crime may seem like stating the obvious, it’s a far from insignificant detail in a country that has tended to minimize the bias aspect of past violence against Jews. more@TIME.com
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