Macron vows justice after tree memorial for murdered Jew cut down

French President Emmanuel Macron promised that all kinds of efforts will be made to monitor and punish a person who interrupted a Jewish tree that was killed.

The commemoration tree was erected 14 years ago to honor Ilan Halimi, who was tortured and killed by a Paris gang in 2006, and created widespread shock and anger at the time.

Macron said on Wednesday that the cutting of the olive tree was “an attempt to kill him for the second time”: “All tools are being deployed to punish this hate action.”

Laurent Nuñez, Paris Police Chief, confirmed that the investigation continued: “Everything will be done to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”

Halimi’s body was found by a railway line with a handcuffed railway line with a bare and seriously burned tree and was captured by more than three weeks of Barbarian gang.

He was retreated to an empty apartment where he was attacked and numbed by a female gang member in February 2006.

The kidnappers tried to force ransom € 450,000 from their family ($ 600,000; $ 405,000) and sent them sad images and video recordings.

Bastetermind – Youssof Fofana – targeted Halimi because of the Jewish heritage and believes that his family is unjustly rich.

Fofana later He was sentenced to life imprisonment in prison While it lasted at least 22 years, the other criminal partner in the crime was fined less.

The tree in the épinay-Sur-Seine suburb was one of the few monuments in the French capital for my state before it was cut.

The local authority said it was cut on Thursday morning, Sending an image The tree was cut at the base and was thrown into a nearby flower bed.

Macron said France’s “France, who died because it’s Jewish, will not forget this child.”

“The Republic does not always compromise in the face of anti -Semitism.”

French Prime Minister François Bayrou accused the “anti -Semitic hatred” for the tree fell.

“No crime can dismantle memory from the root,” he wrote. “The struggle against the deadly poison of hatred is our primary duty.”

In 2019, another tree honoring Halimi was reported to be defined as an anti -Semitic attack at that time.

And in 2017, France’s minister at that time condemned the sanctity of a plaque that reminiscent of Halimi, where he was tear off a wall and covered with antisemitic writing.