An olive tree planted in Epinay-sur-Seine in memory of Ilan Halimi, a young Frenchman of Jewish confession kidnapped and tortured to death in 2006 by the “Barbarians gang”was maliciously shot, said the mayor of the city Hervé Chevreau at the France-Presse agency (AFP), Thursday, August 14. The facts occurred on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, said the elected official of the commune of Seine-Saint-Denis, who announced that he had filed a complaint.
“I firmly condemn this unworthy act. A procedure has been opened. Everything will be done to find the authors and deliver them to justice ”wrote the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nuñez, on the social network X.
Photos show the trunk of this tree planted in 2011 probably cut using a chainsaw, about twenty centimeters from the ground, in front of a stele paying tribute to Ilan Halimi, whose death had caused great emotion in France.
Two other trees already vandalized
Discovered naked, gagged, handcuffed and carrying traces of torture and burns, the young man died during his transfer to the hospital in February 2006.
Mathieu Hanotin, president of the Plaine Commune public establishment, to which Epinay-sur-Seine belongs, condemned after the slaughter of the olive tree “An act of vandalism affecting the collective memory of this anti -Semitic murder”. He is committed to a press release “To a new commemorative tree to be replanted as soon as possible”.
Two other trees planted in tribute to Ilan Halimi had been vandalized in 2019 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, in Essonne, where it had been found dying on the edge of a railway.
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