Kidnapping and murder of a young Jewish man in Paris

If you haven't been following the affair of the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, a 23 year-old man, in Paris, partly because as a Jew, his family must have been rich (that's for the kidnapping and the ransom requests) and as a Jew, he deserved a special treatment (that's for torture and barbarity), check Nidra Poller's article in the WSJ:

In initial statements to the press, Public Prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin and various police officials stuck to their hypothesis that money was the motive for the crime, not anti-Semitism. They noted that Ilan Halimi had been tortured as if the gang were following "a known scenario." Photos of Ilan, naked, with a sack on his head and a gun pointed at his temple were emailed to family members suggesting, according to the police, "scenes of torture at Abu Ghraib." As it turns out, the beheading of Daniel Pearl or Iraqi snuff films are the better comparison. An anonymous police detective quoted in Monday's edition of Libération said: "It's simply that, for those criminals, Jew equals money."

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Ilan's uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan's tortured screams could be heard in the background. The family has publicly criticized the police for deliberately ignoring the explicit anti-Semitic motives, which were repeatedly expressed and should have dictated an entirely different approach to the case from the start. Police searches have now revealed the presence of Islamist literature in the home of at least one of the gang members.

This is not Iraq. This is not Pakistan. This is Paris, France.

Meanwhile, some will be wondering "why?" when they see this.