Macron promises justice after the tree memorial for the murdered Jew cut off

French President Emmanuel Macron has promised that every effort would be made to track down and punish the man who cut down a tree honored by the murdered Jew.

The memorial tree was planted 14 years ago to honor Ilana Khalimi, who was tortured and killed by the Paris gang in 2006, causing a wide shock and indignation at the time.

Macron said the olive tree cutting down on Wednesday was “an attempt to kill him for the second time,” “All the funds are unfolding to punish this act of hatred.”

The head of Paris Paris Paris Laurent Nunes confirmed that an investigation was being conducted, adding: “Everything will be done to find criminals and bring them to justice.”

Halimi’s body was found by a railway line aimed at a tree naked and heavily burned, kept in captivity by a barbaric gang for more than three weeks.

In February 2006, he was lured by a gang participant in an empty apartment, where he was attacked and subjected to addiction.

The kidnappers unsuccessfully tried to extract the ransom of 450,000 euros ($ 600,000; 405,000 pounds) in the family, sending them images and videos.

The inspirer – Yusuf Fofana – aimed at Galimy from his Jewish heritage, believing that his family would be unnecessary.

Fofana was later Convicted to life imprisonment With a minimum period of 22 years, while other accomplices involved in the crime received less proposals.

The tree in the suburbs of the epino-sur-Seine was one of several memorials across the French capital Galimy before it is cut off.

Local authorities stated that on Thursday morning was cut down, Location of the image From it, which shows the tree, sliced at the base and threw into the nearby flower.

Macron said France “would not forget this child of France who died because he was Jewish.”

“In anti -Semitism, the republic is always uncompromising,” he added.

The French Prime Minister Francois Bayer also accused “anti -Semitic hatred” of falling.

“No crime can uproot memory,” he wrote. “Certainly, the fight against the deadly poison of hatred is the main duty.”

In 2019, it was reported that another tree that honors the khali was cut in the fact that the officials at the time described as an anti -Semitic attack.

And in 2017, the then French Interior Minister condemned the deposit of the board, which noted the khali, in which he was thwarted from the wall and covered with anti -Semitic spelling.