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/ 22 February 2006
French investigators headed to Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday to hunt the leader of a gang that tortured and murdered a young Jewish man near Paris, a crime thought to have been motivated in part by anti-Semitism. Two officers were expected in Abidjan late in the day to track down the gang’s alleged leader, a 25-year-old convicted petty criminal of Ivorian origin.
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/ 11 November 2005
France was on alert on Friday for a possible upsurge of violence as the country headed into a long holiday weekend, two weeks after rioting first broke out in a run-down suburb of Paris. Exceptional security measures were taken for Armistice Day ceremonies attended by President Jacques Chirac in the capital.