Ilan Halimi, a 23 year-old Jew, was kidnapped in January 2006, before experiencing 24 days of excruciating torture in a basement in the south west Paris suburb of Bagneux, before being left naked, gagged, and handcuffed with torture and burn marks all over his body. He died without being able to tell the story.
Youssouf Fofana, the gang’s leader, was sentenced in first instance to life imprisonment. According to a spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office, Fofana, in a letter handed to the Court clerk’s office in his prison, declared that he was withdrawing his appeal.
In a related issue, at the initiative of Karen Taieb, a local councillor, the Paris City Council voted unanimously in favour of dedicating a site in Paris’ 12th precinct to the memory of Ilan Halimi.
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