Paris, France - Group Calls for Probe of French Police in Halimi's Murder

Paris, France - A Jewish group is calling on the French Interior Ministry to investigate the police handling of the murder of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew abducted and murdered by a Muslim gang earlier this year, as was reported on VOS IZ NEIAS.

Halimi is believed to have been in an apartment in the Parisian suburbs last January, where he was kept prisoner for three weeks while his abductors attempted to extract a ransom from the family.  His death prompted a public outcry in France, and tens of thousands of people -- including several public officials -- took to the streets of Paris to rally against racism and anti-Semitism.

Halimi's mother Ruth insisted that neighbors in the apartment building where Ilan was held knew of the crime unfolding in their midst and that police should have been able to work faster to save him.  There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, they said.