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BREAKING: 16 Sentenced in Murder of French Jew

Sentences range from eight months to life

by
Dan Klein
December 17, 2010

A French appeals court has handed down sentences to 16 people for the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of twenty-three year old Ilan Halimi, a French Jew. The sentences ranged from eight months to 18 years. The ringleader, Youssouf Fofana, had not appealed his life sentence.