PARIS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The suspected head of an anti-Semitic gang accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing a young French Jew is behind bars in Paris.
Yousouf Fofana, 26, was arrested in Ivory Coast after fleeing France.
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Ilan Halimi, 23, who had been held hostage for three weeks, died after being found naked, bound and gagged in a crime that shocked France.
He was dumped near the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois train station near Paris on 13 February, and found with severe injuries. He died on the way to a hospital.
Halimi's family were sent ransom demands by e-mail and text messages from the kidnap gang, whose leader called himself "brains of the barbarians."
