President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister François Bayrou on Friday condemned antisemitic hatred after a tree planted in tribute to Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man, was cut down. Halimi was kidnapped and tortured in January 2006.
On 20 January that year, Halimi was forced into a car in Sceaux on the southern outskirts of Paris. He was held first in a flat in nearby Bagneux, then in a cellar in the town, by a group of about 20 people calling themselves the "Barbarian Gang".
