The French Minister of Justice Michèle Alliot-Marie has asked the Attorney General to appeal against the verdict, which provides for some of the accomplices of an anti-Semitic crime only conditional prison sentences.
The trial of the suburban gang, who had himself baptized "gang of barbarians", left in France, a feeling of frustration and dissatisfaction. As some complicity in the abduction, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi Jewish phone seller in January 2006, a minor, the negotiations took place before the Paris jury exclusion of the public. Although the anti-Semitic nature of this heinous crime was not seriously be disputed whether this discretion of the judiciary from the perspective of the relatives of the murder victim's now the required punishment for murder. Particularly outraged are the family members with them and several Jewish organizations in France, now that the very late on Friday evening announced verdict some complicity, not directly to the mistreatment of the hostages were accused of coming to conditional sentences like this that are lower than the criminal complaint the prosecution. Because of this "scandalous leniency" means that part of the condemned today are already at large and would be celebrated at all, even in her quarters might like heroes.
The Council of Jewish Institutions of France had hoped for a harsh sentence examples to push racism in a bar. The to life in prison and a 22-year preventive detention sentenced gang leader Youssouf Fofana had almost the same age Ilan Halimi chosen as victims because he thought in his anti-Semitic prejudice, the Jews were rich and would pay the ransom. In the process Fofana made his anti-Semitism no secret, he shocked the survivors with verbal provocation and taunted them by - in an absurd imitation of a protest of an Iraqi journalist - even a shoe hurled at them.
organized yesterday the "office to monitor anti-Semitism" in the vicinity of the Paris Ministry of Justice a demonstration against the court ruling that his alleged "leniency" for part of the "barbarians" the anti-Semitic violence, the French Jews were exposed to for years "trivializing" will. The judges' associations condemned again this demonstration against an ordinary court decision, they also criticized the intervention of the new Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, who was at the request of the family of the murdered Ilan Halimi invites the Prosecutor General's Office to request a new trial, which if possible should not take place behind closed doors. The desire of the Minister was under its magistrates ordered the General Prosecutor appealed against 14 of the sentences.
Rudolf Balmer, Paris 13.07.2009
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