I was ignorant of the details of the Ilan Halimi case, the posted link at the head of this thread does not work for me. I posted my comment on French Anti-Semitism not based on this case, which I finally looked up via Wikipedia. I presume the reason it appears here at Mudcat is because the malefactors have recently been sentenced.

It is truly horrific, but I feel it is unrelated to historic 'French' anti-semitism.