Authorities in France are vowing to track down and prosecute unknown attackers who chopped down an olive tree planted in homage to a French Jew murdered in 2006.
The commemorative tree for Ilan Halimi, planted 14 years ago in the northern Paris suburb of Épinay-sur-Seine, was attacked Wednesday night, seemingly with a chainsaw. The town posted a photo on its Facebook page showing the tree's leafy, bushy top completely severed from its base, leaving just the stump poking from the ground.
