Bloodthirsty Liberal

Actually, Halimi’s still dead, sorry to say.

What an odd bunch the French are. Where we would simply put down a rabid dog, they put it on trial:

The alleged leader of a French kidnap gang has gone on trial in Paris accused of torturing and killing a Jewish man - a crime that shocked France in 2006.

Youssouf Fofana - who admits kidnapping 23-year-old Ilan Halimi but denies killing him - shouted “God is great” in Arabic as he entered the courtroom.

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Mr Halimi was kidnapped and brutally tortured for more than three weeks before he was found naked and tied to a tree near a railway track in the southern suburbs of Paris.

He had been stabbed and set alight and died on his way to hospital.

Mr Fofana, 28, leader of a Paris gang known as The Barbarians, is accused of carrying out the attack and faces life imprisonment if found guilty.

He entered the court wearing a white tracksuit and looked at Mr Halimi’s relatives before shouting “Allahu akbar”.

I would have thrown a bloody pig-bladder at him at that point, but then I might have missed the rest of his curious claims:

When the judge asked the defendant for his identity, he replied “African barbarian armed revolt salafist”, referring to a strict Sunni Muslim movement.

He the told the court he was born on 13 February, 2006, in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois - the date and place of Mr Halimi’s death.

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The victim, who worked in a mobile phone shop, was lured by a female gang member to an empty apartment in the Parisian suburbs where he was attacked and drugged.

The kidnappers tried unsuccessfully to extort a ransom of 450,000 euros ($600,000; £405,000) from his family.

During his ordeal, his family was sent harrowing images and video recordings by his captors.

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Mr Fofana, of Ivorian descent, fled to Ivory Coast after the murder and allegedly made death threats over the telephone Mr Halimi’s father and girlfriend.

He was extradited back to France in March 2006.

We’ve covered this story from the beginning, and there are details here I’ve never heard before. I’m no Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, but I can’t believe people like this are still walking around. Outside of Gaza, anyway. And I’m no supporter of the death penalty, but I’d kick the stool out from under this diseased beast myself, and pull on his legs until he stopped quivering.