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France: Muslim who tortured and murdered Jew while quoting Qur’an assaults prison guards, gets three more years

Feb 20, 2014 8:15 am By Robert Spencer

1300854_3_5a30_youssouf-fofana-le-4-mars-2006-au-depart_6de0f498778d049afa3bfe00d25d9f4dThe “Gang of Barbarians” tortured and murdered a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, in 2006. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2006 that Halimi was found “stumbling in a field near the railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris. Handcuffed, naked, with four-fifths of his body covered with bruises, stab wounds and serious burns, Ilan died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Soon after, police provided more details. The victim had been kidnapped Jan. 20 and held for 24 days by a gang from the banlieues, the poor suburban projects that ring the French capital, who eluded capture while repeatedly contacting Ilan’s family with ransom demands….Ilan’s uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan’s tortured screams could be heard in the background.”

At his trial, Fofana smirked at Halimi’s relatives and shouted, “Allahu akbar!”

“Three additional years of imprisonment for Youssouf Fofana,” a translation of “Trois ans de prison supplémentaires pour Youssouf Fofana,” from Le Monde, February 19 (thanks to Bill):

The former leader of the “Gang of Barbarians,” Youssouf Fofana, was sentenced on Wednesday, February 19 to three additional years of prison for twice assaulting prison guards at Condé-sur-Sarthe, near Alençon, after a summary trial under surveillance

“I do not know…I do not know…I do not know more,” is all that the accused, who is scheduled to be released in 2028, said with a small amused smile on his lips to each of the questions from the court, before at the very end of the trial, he also asked for the retirement of the director of the prison.

“Mr. Fofana intends to assert its defense by his silence,” said his lawyer Hubert Guyomard, adding that his client had initially intended to challenge the charges before asking him to remain quiet. The court followed the prosecution’s case.

Sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment with twenty-two years without the possibility of parole for kidnapping, torturing and killing the young Jew Ilan Halimi in 2006, Youssouf Fofana appeared this time for twice, on December 24 and February 10, assaulting guards with a homemade weapon, in premeditated attacks.

Interviewed by journalists, after the trial, M. Guyomard felt that there was in France “reflection on what a life sentence is now…We have people locked up for very long periods. You cannot be detained and live without hope or it will come to the abuses we have learned about [during the trial]: to acts of violence that are hard to bear for prison staff,” he insisted.

So in other words, release this savage before he hurts anyone else. Yeah, that will work.

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  1. John Dattilo says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 8:21 am

    Ask that Jewish man’s family. If Islam is a peaceful religion.

  2. Charli Main says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 8:28 am

    This piece of Muslim pigsh*t should be castrated before he is allowed to leave prison. That should wipe the smirk off his face.

  3. Td Sonnier says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 8:29 am

    Dose being civilized mean we should house people that want to kill for no reason other than because we do not believe as they do and show no sign of remorse and compassion for all life?

  4. Td Sonnier says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 8:29 am

    Dose being civilized mean we should house people that want to kill for no reason other than because we do not believe as they do and show no sign of remorse and compassion for all life?

  5. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 9:54 am

    Why not send Youssouf Fofana on to his 72 virgin rewards? It’s a win-win for everyone.

    • Abdul Malik says

      Feb 22, 2014 at 4:11 am

      Agree wholeheartedly.

  6. Veracious_one says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 11:36 am

    Youssouf Fofana and his gang of pious Muslims were simply demonstrating what Islam brings to the table….

  7. john spielman says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 11:57 am

    The behavior of Fofana is that expected of a demon possessed follower of that dead demon possessed mass murderer thief liar misogynist and pedophile Mohammed! Both men are clearly evil and will end up in the destiny that such evil men deserve.

  8. voegelinian says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Soon after, police provided more details. The victim had been kidnapped Jan. 20 and held for 24 days by a gang from the banlieues, the poor suburban projects that ring the French capital, who eluded capture while repeatedly contacting Ilan’s family with ransom demands….Ilan’s uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan’s tortured screams could be heard in the background.”

    It’s even worse than that, if that’s conceivable — and with Muslims, the reality is often far worse than we can imagine.

    In an opinion column written for the Wall Street Journal in February of 2006, author Nidra Poller (who has been living in Paris since 1972) added more details — which I will bold for emphasis:

    PARIS … Soon after, police provided more details. The victim had been kidnapped Jan. 20 and held for 24 days by a gang from the banlieues, the poor suburban projects that ring the French capital, who eluded capture while repeatedly contacting Ilan’s family with ransom demands. The police suspect the group was involved in other kidnapping attempts in the last two months that used young women as bait. Several of the targeted men worked, as Ilan did, in the small cell phone shops along Boulevard Voltaire in the mixed 11th arrondissement of Paris. In another case, a suspicious father replaced his son for a meeting with a girl who claimed to be a singer, and fell into the hands of masked men who tried to capture him but ran away when someone called the police.

    Throughout Ilan’s disappearance, the police handled his case as a straightforward kidnap for ransom. The discovery of his body, bearing signs of barbaric torture over an extended period of time, raised serious doubts about this hypothesis. Later, a policeman admitted to the press that he and his colleagues were baffled by the gang’s erratic behavior. Ransom demands went up to 400,000 euros, dropped to 100,000 euros one day, 5,000 euros another. The kidnappers called off several pickup arrangements, acting like amateurs, but were highly sophisticated in using untraceable emails and cell phones.
    * * *

    Yet one detail was consistently played down by the investigators and missing from the early media reporting on the killing. The victim, whose full name is Ilan Halimi, was Jewish. Most of the men targeted in other kidnapping attempts were Jewish. Most members of the gang who allegedly carried out the crime are Muslims, whose families come from the Maghreb or sub-Saharan Africa and live in the very sort of neighborhoods that went up in flames during three weeks of nationwide rioting last fall.

    …French Jews have become sensitive to a well-documented rise in violent Muslim anti-Semitism over the past five years and saw anti-Semitism as the missing link in this senseless crime. After all, Ilan’s family is simple and modest. Ruth Halimi, who is divorced from Ilan’s father, works as a receptionist. Why else, people are asking, would Ilan be tortured so cruelly for so long? No other motive, aside from sheer hatred, is apparent.

    After Ilan was found on Feb. 13, the pieces started to fall into place quickly. When the police put out a sketch of a blond woman who had tried to bait other young men in similar circumstances as Ilan Halimi’s, Audrey Lorleach turned herself in [Audrey Lorleach is a strange member of the gang, an attractice, upper middle-class-appearing blonde white Frenchwoman; she however was apparently not the “bait” for this particular kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, but rather another female member of the gang known as “Emma” did the deed — see http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/french-audrey-lorleach-one-of-the-members-of-the-gang-who-news-photo/86298790 ]. She led police to a housing project in Bagneux, a suburb in Hauts-de-Seine. Fifteen suspects in the Halimi murder, who call their gang the “Barbarians,” were brought into custody. Youssouf Fofana, who refers to himself (in English) as the “Brain of the Barbarians,” is the apparent ringleader. He is on the run and, investigators suspect, hiding in northern Ivory Coast, the birthplace of his parents. The girl who entrapped Ilan Halimi, who was also on the run, may be among the three people arrested in Aix-en-Provence Tuesday.

    Ilan was held prisoner and abused in an apartment and later a utility room in the cellar in one of the project buildings. Both were lent to the gang by the concierge, who is also now in custody. Some in the gang were known delinquents. Mr. Fofana, who is 26, had served time for armed robbery. But another member was in on-the-job training in the IT service of a French TV station.

    …Justice Minister Pascal Clement explained that the charge of anti-Semitism was based on the fact that one of the suspects had declared to the judge that they picked a Jew because Jews are supposed to be rich. But, according to reports in the French press, some of the suspects in police custody said that they tortured Ilan with particular cruelty simply because he was Jewish.

    No longer able to deny or play down the racial motive, the investigation is entering a new phase. One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang, who were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture.

    http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB114064452021880485

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      Thanks for the additional horrific information, Voegelinian.

      I hved read these details before, but it is always best to keep in mind the full barbarism of pious Mohammedans.

      And here is a related story—one you are likely familiar with (Mark Styen, Chicago Sun-Times):

      “In five years’ time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents’ apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam’s throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven.”

      “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven.”—that says it all. *Ugh*.

  9. Cyclonus says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    This is another fine example of why Islam should not be welcomed into any Western country. All it’s followers bring is hatred and violence to your country. And they love to get on welfare because they are too lazy to work. And have NO skills at all. And their only goal is to overthrow a Gov. and install Sharia Law.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 22, 2014 at 2:38 am

      @Cyclonus

      It’s best not to under-estimate islam0fascists. They haven’t taken over Dearbornistan, Michigan by being dumb or lazy. They haven’t been co-opting US universities by being dumb. In my neck of the woods, the most alarming thing is the islam0fascist infiltration and subversion of the healthcare industry and medical jihad is the new reality of the healthcare system in the US today.

  10. Henry says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Savage, sadistic, psychopaths. Islam is a horror.

  11. Cupcake says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 1:19 pm

    I’m really confused. Everyone keeps saying that Islam is a religion of peace known for its tolerance. Frighteningly, it’s not just leftists who peddle this poppycock. Michael Savage believes that Muslim piety, modesty and morality will save Europe and the West.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 22, 2014 at 2:40 am

      Michael Savage didn’t used to be so islam0fascist friendly. I wonder if his new found love of islam is a paid-for position.

  12. voegelinian says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 5:21 pm

    What happened to the “Reply” buttons for individual comments?

    Anyway, replying to Cupcake’s comment noticing that it’s not just Leftists who are in that famous river in Egypt about Islam — in fact, the majority of Westerners are PC MC about Islam. I have decided long ago to employ the term “PC MC” to denote specifically the denial of the problem of Islam (with extra credit to those many among them who go the extra mile by actually taking the time and trouble to defend and even praise Muslims) — precisely an additional term to use separate from “Leftist”, because it became obviously apparent to me that the majority of the Three Cs also are in denial about the problem of Islam — Conservatives, Centrists, and that rather large sociopolitical demographic underappreciated, the Comfortably Apolitical. And the term “Leftist” became positively confusing if not counter-productive in this regard.

    I have noticed time and time again a Conservative who may be right-wing and politically INcorrect about a whole panoply of other issues, but who suddenly becomes politically correct about Islam; and so I had to come up with new terminology and analysis to describe this curious phenomenon.

    And then there is the closely related phenomenon of what I term the “asymptotic” position — whereby someone seems to want to convey that they are tough and no-nonsense about the problem of Islam, but in the language they choose to use to communicate this (e.g., using “ist” terms to try anxiously to demarcate the problem away from Islam and away from Muslims — “extremist Islam” or “Islamist” or “radical extremist Muslims”, etc.), they betray an underlying softness not appreciably different from the PC MC paradigm.

    And so forth and so bloody effing on.

  13. Bezelel says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    Bring back Devils Island, How can the POS possibly have a release date? Do they expect to reform him?

  14. Gordon Campbell says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 2:38 am

    Off the swine then bury him inside a pig’s carcass.

  15. TimandJenny Dykstra says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 7:07 am

    Interesting: when I read the German wiki page on Ilan Halimi, it is clearly written that they were muslims. But the English wiki totally leaves that out and gives the impression that they only tried to copy what some islamist have done in the past.

    A very obvious censorship of the facts to avoid the issues at hand.

  16. TimandJenny Dykstra says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 7:07 am

    Interesting: when I read the German wiki page on Ilan Halimi, it is clearly written that they were muslims. But the English wiki totally leaves that out and gives the impression that they only tried to copy what some islamist have done in the past.

    A very obvious censorship of the facts to avoid the issues at hand.

  17. TimandJenny Dykstra says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 7:07 am

    Interesting: when I read the German wiki page on Ilan Halimi, it is clearly written that they were muslims. But the English wiki totally leaves that out and gives the impression that they only tried to copy what some islamist have done in the past.

    A very obvious censorship of the facts to avoid the issues at hand.

  18. Gamaliel says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 7:23 am

    If ever someone should have gotten the death penalty it is the killers of Ilan Halimi. The fact that one of them is being released is a shame to France and should be terrifying to any infidel with a brain who will become his next victim. The judge who is responsible for his release is responsible for whatever he does when he’s out of prison and should know that he will be held responsible.

  19. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    Is Audrey Lorleach (the member of the islamic kidnapping gang) a recent revert to the RoP? Would the enemedia report it if she was?

  20. gravenimage says

    Feb 21, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    France: Muslim who tortured and murdered Jew while quoting Qur’an assaults prison guards, gets three more years
    …………………………………

    That the violence against infidels continues should surprise no one.

    More:

    Soon after, police provided more details. The victim had been kidnapped Jan. 20 and held for 24 days by a gang from the banlieues, the poor suburban projects that ring the French capital, who eluded capture while repeatedly contacting Ilan’s family with ransom demands….
    …………………………………

    Islam does indeed condone kidnapping victims and holding them for ransom.

    But what happened to Ilan Halimi is *not* an isolated incident—we see this sort of “fake ransom demand” all the time. Sometimes the kidnappers will make absurd demands, such as asking for more than the entire family—or even entire community—makes in a whole year.

    This can seem baffling, but it should not: it is intended to offer false hope to the family, and to add to their pain with the burden of unearned guilt when their loved one is butchered.

    More:

    At his trial, Fofana smirked at Halimi’s relatives and shouted, “Allahu akbar!”
    …………………………………

    Because they do indeed believe that the torture and murder of this young Jewish man is pleasing to their horrific “god”.

    More:

    “I do not know…I do not know…I do not know more,” is all that the accused, who is scheduled to be released in 2028, said with a small amused smile on his lips to each of the questions from the court, before at the very end of the trial, he also asked for the retirement of the director of the prison.
    …………………………………

    That this vicious Muslim butcher is *ever* slated to get out of prison is utter madness—and a serious threat to the entire Infidel French populace.

    Note, also, that in “asking for the retirement of the director of the prison”—bland phrasing—that this Mohammedan is once again rejecting any Kuffar authority.

    More:

    Interviewed by journalists, after the trial, M. Guyomard felt that there was in France “reflection on what a life sentence is now…We have people locked up for very long periods. You cannot be detained and live without hope or it will come to the abuses we have learned about [during the trial]: to acts of violence that are hard to bear for prison staff,” he insisted.

    So in other words, release this savage before he hurts anyone else. Yeah, that will work.
    …………………………………

    What insanity. There are people in prison who can and should be rehabilitated—Fofana is not one of them.

    The only “hope” he retains is that of doing more harm to innocent Infidels.

  21. Samir S. Halabi says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    I really do think that Fofana should have his balls cut off then sent on his way to the 70 Virgins.

  22. Samir S. halabi says

    Apr 3, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    Each day the guards enter his cell he should be flogged till he drops.

  23. Samir S. Halabi says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 5:17 am

    There is only one way to deal with Muslims that want to kill Jews, Undercover Jewish agents should go out and be targets for these barbarians, when they know they are going to be attacked or even murdered by these thugs they should shoot to kill. This operation should be repeated as many times as it takes to instill fear into the hearts and minds of these degenerates until they eventually learn their lesson to stop harassing Jews in France or anywhere else.

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