| 24 Days: The Kidnapping and Murder of Ilan Halimi Contributor(s): Halimi, Ruth (Author), Freche, Emilie (With) |
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ISBN: 1681150085 ISBN-13: 9781681150086 Publisher: Behrman House Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - True Crime | Murder - General - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2019028418 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.59" W x 8.58" (0.90 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On January 20, 2006, Ilan Halimi, chosen because he was Jewish, was kidnapped and taken to an apartment in Bagneux, France. He was held and tortured there for over three weeks before being thrown into the woods by his executioners. Found naked along a railroad track, he did not survive his ordeal. In this poignant memoir, originally published in French, Ruth Halimi, Ilan's mother, recalls the twenty-four days of this nightmare 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 the kidnappers, 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 wealthy and united, and for this reason they imagined the Jewish community would pull together to p |
Contributor Bio(s): Halimi, Ruth: - Ruth Halimi is the mother of Ilan Halimi, whose kidnapping and murder in 2006 by an anti-Semitic gang in France she recounts in this memoir.Freche, Emilie: - ‰milie Frche is a French writer and scriptwriter engaged in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism. |