Possibly... but nobody talks about it here. I don't know why, this story is so ridiculous that it could be interesting to some people. Besides, let me add that the article Frank linked too is - as usual - not representing the facts accurately. It makes the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi sounds as if it was an act of ethnic cleansing, when in fact the goal was to receive money from the family, in exchange for his liberation.

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Client: In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!
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(Beckett)