{"id":655,"date":"2017-05-29T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2021-01-14T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:12:20","slug":"remarks-on-the-sarah-halimi-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/remarks-on-the-sarah-halimi-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks On The Sarah Halimi Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Times;\n\tpanose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:2&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Due to the electoral context, is there an &laquo;&nbsp;organized silence&nbsp;&raquo; in Paris over a savage antisemitic murder&nbsp;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Times;\n\tpanose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:&quot;&quot;;\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\n\tmso-fareast-language:EN-US;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{color:blue;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tcolor:purple;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:595.0pt 842.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:35.4pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:2&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Here are my remarks on the Sarah Halimi case for Ben Cohen in <em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal&quot;>The Algemeiner&nbsp;<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:2&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:2&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>French Jewish Anger Grows Over Savage Antisemitic Murder of Pensioner at Hands of Muslim in Paris Suburb<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:4&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;><a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/author\/ben-cohen-alg&quot;>by Ben Cohen<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>May 29, 2017 3:34 pm <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:4&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;><a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2017\/05\/29\/french-jewish-anger-grows-over-savage-antisemitic-murder-of-pensioner-at-hands-of-muslim-in-paris-suburb\/&quot;>https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2017\/05\/29\/french-jewish-anger-grows-over-savage-antisemitic-murder-of-pensioner-at-hands-of-muslim-in-paris-suburb\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:4&quot;><strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal&quot;><span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:Times;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>As further&nbsp;details emerge of the brutal murder of an Orthodox Jewish woman in a Paris suburb at the hands of a Muslim assailant last month, French Jews are increasingly worried and angered by what one prominent member of the community&nbsp;called an &ldquo;organized silence&rdquo; surrounding the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Dr. Sarah Halimi &mdash; a 66-year-old pensioner living in the Paris suburb of Belleville &mdash; was murdered in the early hours of April 4 by Kada Traore, a 27-year-old immigrant from Mali.&nbsp;&nbsp;After breaking into the neighboring apartment of another Malian family at 4:25 a.m. &mdash; whose terrified inhabitants locked themselves away as they heard him recite verses from the Quran &mdash; Traore&nbsp;jumped over the balcony and forced his way into Halimi&rsquo;s apartment. As he beat the elderly lady savagely, her screams prompted neighbors to call the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Three officers arrived at 4:45 a.m. But on hearing Traore yelling &ldquo;Allahu Akhbar!&rdquo; and &ldquo;Shaitan!&rdquo; (Arabic for &lsquo;Satan&rsquo;), they feared a terrorist attack was taking place, and called for backup. Anti-terror officers did not arrive until 5:00 a.m., by which time Halimi had been thrown by her attacker from the window of her third-floor apartment to the ground below. Traore, reported to be a drug dealer and addict with a criminal record, then returned to the apartment of the Malian family where he resumed his prayers, and was not taken into police custody until almost 6:00 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Shock over the barbaric nature of the murder has been compounded by the reluctance of both the media and French authorities to recognize it as an antisemitic hate crime &mdash; even after a silent march of remembrance on the Sunday after the murder was met by local youths chanting &ldquo;Death to the Jews&rdquo; and &ldquo;We Own Kalashnikovs.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>In an <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.theaugeanstables.com\/2017\/05\/26\/from-ilan-to-sarah-halimi-shameful-france\/&quot;>open letter<\/a> to new French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb,&nbsp;Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine &mdash; a French journalist and expert on antisemitism &mdash; charged that &ldquo;in the advanced decadence that reigns today in the country of (antisemitic comedian) Dieudonn&eacute;, for whom &lsquo;the Jews are dogs&rsquo; (and people laugh hysterically), it seems that a run-over dog deserves more attention than a murdered Jewish woman.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Laignel-Lavastine also quoted William Attal, Halimi&rsquo;s brother, who stated,&nbsp;&ldquo;I have waited seven weeks before I said anything. The absolute silence about my sister&rsquo;s murder&nbsp;has become intolerable.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Since the murder, official and media accounts of what transpired have played up claims that Traore was suffering from mental illness, while virtually ignoring the antisemitic element of the crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>A common theory is that the recent French election encouraged &mdash; in the phrase of Michel Gurfinkiel,&nbsp;a leading French political analyst and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute in Paris &mdash; an &ldquo;organized silence&rdquo; around the Halimi murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&ldquo;Such a story would benefit the Right and the National Front,&rdquo; Gurfinkiel said. &ldquo;Everyone is convinced this is why there has been such an organized silence around the story.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>A few days after the murder, Marine Le Pen &mdash; the leader of the far-right, anti-immigrant National Front &mdash;&nbsp;<a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/851375235920257024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.europe-israel.org%2F2017%2F04%2Fvideo-marine-le-pen-affaire-sarah-halimi-lantisemitisme-islamiste-fait-des-victimes-dans-lindifference-generale%2F&quot;>tweeted that<\/a> Halimi&rsquo;s fate made her want to &ldquo;speak about Islamist antisemitism.&rdquo; Le Pen was defeated by centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the&nbsp;presidential election on May 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&ldquo;The Jewish community was very careful not to be suspected&nbsp;of siding with&nbsp;Marine Le Pen,&rdquo; Gurfinkiel said. He also noted that state provision of security to religious buildings and institutions means that Jewish organizations are &ldquo;reluctant to raise certain questions.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>But as more time passes in the wake of&nbsp;Halimi&rsquo;s murder, the calls to recognize its antisemitic nature are growing. Interviewed by the <a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/paris-75011\/meurtre-de-sarah-halimi-la-communaute-juive-denonce-un-acte-antisemite-22-05-2017-6973017.php&quot;><em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style:normal&quot;>Le Parisien<\/em> newspaper<\/a> last week, the lawyers for the Halimi family, Jean-Alex Buchinger and David Kaminsky, said in no uncertain terms that Sarah Halimi had been &ldquo;targeted, tortured and killed by her assailant because she was Jewish.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Halimi&rsquo;s murder&nbsp;robbed the Jewish community in Paris of one of its most loved figures, known for her work as a doctor and as a kindergarten teacher. &ldquo;She was very well known and respected, a great person,&rdquo; Gurfinkiel said. &ldquo;The tragedy is that she was living in that part of Paris where Jews are gradually leaving, since the security doesn&rsquo;t exist anymore.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nbackground:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;mso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>It also brought forth reminders of the 2006 kidnapping and murder of a young French&nbsp;Jew, Ilan Halimi &mdash; no relation to Ruth Halimi &mdash; whose body was left for dead by a mostly-Muslim gang who seized him out of the belief that Jews were wealthy and willing to pay ransom money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>&ldquo;The French police were of no help during the whole (Ilan Halimi) episode, rejecting any idea that antisemitism could have played a role in the affair and preferring to believe the absurd notion that this was the result of some war between rival gangs,&rdquo;&nbsp;Laignel-Lavastine noted in her letter about Ruth Halimi to French Interior Minister Collomb. &ldquo;Ten years later, we have reached the same point.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm&quot;><span style=&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-fareast-language:FR&quot;>Traore is currently undergoing psychiatric tests and Jewish communal leaders are impatient for more information from authorities. &ldquo;The more time passes, the more the community feels that there is something you do not want to tell us,&rdquo; commented Joel Mergui, head of the Consistoire &mdash; the governing body of French Jewish communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<style type=&quot;text\/css&quot;>\n<\/style>\n<p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.1pt;\nmargin-left:1.0cm;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;\nmso-para-margin-bottom:.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:1.0cm;mso-outline-level:2&quot;>Due to the electoral context, is there an &laquo;&nbsp;organized silence&nbsp;&raquo; in Paris over a savage antisemitic murder&nbsp;?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/en\/remarks-on-the-sarah-halimi-case\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Remarks On The Sarah Halimi Case &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[655],"tags":[651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michelgurfinkiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}