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(IsraelNN.com) The French Jewish community and local government officials are outraged after it was disclosed that anti-Semitic thugs locked up, brutally attacked and tormented a Jewish youth in the same Paris suburb where Ilan Hamili was tortured to death two years ago. The gang members are aged 17-25 and have been charged with locking up a 19-year-old boy, beating and sexually tormenting him.

The gang had falsely accused the youth of stealing from them and lured him into an apartment of one of the attackers. They scrawled "dirty Jew" on the face of the victim, who was subjected to a nine and a half hour ordeal.
 
The attack occurred in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, whose municipal officials said, "We are shocked and outraged. We condemn such acts in the strongest term. Our city has values of tolerance, respect of differences, fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia," according to the European Jewish Press.