Getty imagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron has vowed that an attempt will be made to track every attempt and punish the person who cut a tree remembering a killer Jew.
The Memorial Tree was deployed 14 years ago to honor Iel Halimi, which was tortured by a Paris gang in 2006 and expressed a widespread shock and resentment at that time.
Macron said that on Wednesday, the fall of the olive tree was “attempted to kill it for the second time”, saying: “All means are being deployed to punish this act of hatred.”
Paris police chief Laurent Nunez confirmed that an investigation was going on, saying: “Everything would be done to find criminals and to judge them.”
Halimi’s body was found by a railway line with handcuffs on a tree, naked and severely burnt, which was taken captive by the barbaric gang for more than three weeks.
She was lured by a woman gang member in an empty apartment in February 2006, where she was attacked and intoxicated drugs.
The kidnappers tried unsuccessfully to extract a ransom of € 450,000 ($ 600,000; £ 405,000) from their family, harassing them with images and video recording.
Mastermind – Yusuf Fofana – targeted Halimi due to his Jewish heritage, considered his family to be rich.
Fofna was later Life sentenced to life in jail With a minimum period of 22 years, while other companions trapped in crime found less sentences.
Getty imagesThe tree in the suburb of épinay-sur-seine was one of the several monuments in the French capital for Halimi, before it was cut.
The local authority said that it was cut on Thursday morning, Posting an image Out of this, the tree was cut on the base and thrown into nearby flowers.
Macron said that France “would not forget this child of France, who died because he was a Jew”.
He said, “In front of Antisementism, the Republic is always unrelated.”
French Prime Minister François Bero also convicted “Antisemitic Hatters” for the fall of the tree.
“Any crime cannot uproot memory,” he wrote. “The never -ending battle against the deadly poison of hatred is our primary duty.”
In 2019, another tree honoring Halimi was allegedly cut off, describing an antisemic attack by officials at that time.
And in 2017, the then French internal minister condemned the waste of a plaque reminiscent of Halimi, in which it was torn from a wall and covered with antisementic writing.
