"On January 20, 2006, Ilan Halimi, chosen because he was Jewish, was kidnapped and taken to an apartment in Bagneux. He was held and tortured there for three weeks before being thrown into the woods by his executioners. Found naked along the Sainte-Genevi???eve-des-Bois rail, he did not survive his ordeal. In this poignant memoir, Ruth Halimi, Ilan's mother, recalls the twenty-four days of this nightmare. Twenty-four days during which she received over 600 phone calls, ransom demands that constantly changed, insults, ...
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"On January 20, 2006, Ilan Halimi, chosen because he was Jewish, was kidnapped and taken to an apartment in Bagneux. He was held and tortured there for three weeks before being thrown into the woods by his executioners. Found naked along the Sainte-Genevi???eve-des-Bois rail, he did not survive his ordeal. In this poignant memoir, Ruth Halimi, Ilan's mother, recalls the twenty-four days of this nightmare. Twenty-four days during which she received over 600 phone calls, ransom demands that constantly changed, insults, threats, and pictures of her tortured son. Police procedures repeatedly failed. The case was eventually solved and a gang of suburban hoodlums (who later earned the name of "le Gang des Barbares"), led by an Ivorian immigrant, Youssouf Fofana, were arrested by police. What shocked the public at the time was that Fofana and his gang members claimed openly that they thought Jews were usually wealthy and united, and for these reasons they imagined the Jewish community would pull together to pay a large ransom for Halimi's release. The US edition-a joint publication of Behrman House Inc and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)-includes a new foreword and modern-day anti-Semitic news vignettes to show the universal problem of anti-Semitism"--
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