The alleged leader of a gang suspected of murdering a French Jew denied he carried out the murder. Speaking calmly this week from his cell in the Ivory Coast, where he fled after the murder, Youssouf Fofana admitted that he was involved in kidnapping Ilan Halimi, but said he did not kill him.
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