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The affair of the Gang of Barbarians (in (フランス語:l'affaire du gang des barbares)), was a kidnapping and torture case that gripped and shocked France both because of the fear of resurgence of antisemitism (because the crime was motivated by antisemitism and money) and also because of the vicious nature of the crime committed. A total of 27 people were accused as implicated in the crime and were tried for kidnapping and murder in 2009. Gang leader Youssouf Fofana (born 1980 in Paris to immigrants from Côte d'Ivoire) was convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 22 years. Others received shorter prison sentences, some suspended, and three were acquitted. While Fofana's life sentence was definite, 14 of the 27 verdicts were appealed by the prosecution. The convictions were upheld on appeal in December 2010. == Timeline of the crime == According to press reports based on information from French criminal investigation authorities, as of February 25, 2006, the crime was believed to have happened as follows: * On January 20, 2006, Ilan Halimi was lured by an attractive seventeen-year-old girl who called herself Yalda〔 〕 (of French-Iranian origin),〔 〕 to an apartment block in the Parisian ''banlieues''.〔 〕 * There Halimi was overwhelmed by a youth gang and kept prisoner for twenty-four days. * Halimi was initially guarded by four teenagers. During the following three-week period, his kidnappers, at least 19 of them, beat him all over his body, especially his testicles, completely wrapping his head in duct tape, except for his mouth, so he could breathe and eat through a straw, stabbing him, burning his body and face with acid, cigarettes and lighters. They also tried to extract a ransom (initially of 450,000 Euros) from his family. * Halimi was found naked, handcuffed, and bound with nylon rope to a tree about inside a woodlot near a railway station, just outside Paris, on February 13, 2006. It was reported that more than 80% of his body had been burned with acid, as well as gasoline (possibly to destroy evidence of his captors' DNA), to the point that he was difficult to recognize. He had severe contusions, blood blisters, and hematomas covering most of his body (to the point that he was more blue than flesh-colored), multiple broken bones, one ear and one big toe missing. Most of his penis appeared to have been burned off, and his testicles were described as " like blackened oranges." Halimi died en route to a hospital. * A woman, referred to as ''Audrey L.'', turned herself in after the police had released a photo-fit picture. She pointed to ''the Barbarians'', a gang of African and North African immigrants who had perpetrated similar abductions in the past. In the subsequent days, French police arrested 15 persons in connection with the crime. The leader of the gang, Youssouf Fofana, fled to his parents' homeland of Côte d'Ivoire with the woman used as bait. They were arrested on February 23 in Abidjan and extradited to France on March 4, 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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