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As further details emerge of the brutal murder of an Orthodox Jewish woman in a Paris suburb at the hands of a Muslim assailant last month, French Jews are increasingly worried and angered by what one prominent member of the community called an organized silence surrounding the case.
Dr. Sarah Halimi a 66-year-old pensioner living in the Paris suburb of Belleville was murdered in the early hours of April 4 by Kada Traore, a 27-year-old immigrant from Mali. After breaking into the neighboring apartment of another Malian family at 4:25 a.m. whose terrified inhabitants locked themselves away as they heard him recite verses from the Quran Traore jumped over the balcony and forced his way into Halimis apartment. As he beat the elderly lady savagely, her screams prompted neighbors to call the police.
Three officers arrived at 4:45 a.m. But on hearing Traore yelling Allahu Akhbar! and Shaitan! (Arabic for Satan), they feared a terrorist attack was taking place, and called for backup. Anti-terror officers did not arrive until 5:00 a.m., by which time Halimi had been thrown by her attacker from the window of her third-floor apartment to the ground below. Traore, reported to be a drug dealer and addict with a criminal record, then returned to the apartment of the Malian family where he resumed his prayers, and was not taken into police custody until almost 6:00 a.m.
Shock over the barbaric nature of the murder has been compounded by the reluctance of both the media and French authorities to recognize it as an antisemitic hate crime even after a silent march of remembrance on the Sunday after the murder was met by local youths chanting Death to the Jews and We Own Kalashnikovs.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/29/french-jewish-anger-grows-over-savage-antisemitic-murder-of-pensioner-at-hands-of-muslim-in-paris-suburb/
Those chicken shit French cops need to be sued.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)Given the choice I'd rather deal with the Orange Menace in the US as a Jew than life in France as a Jew.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Doesn't seem like a productive response.
We're going to see much more of this in the coming years.
And Europe, in general, will let radical Muslims (and the occasional Neo-Nazi) kill and attack Jews, because they are afraid of radical Muslims and Neo-Nazis.
We're too law-abiding to be worthy of protection for the cowards.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)time to kiss france goodbye.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)to Quebec.