PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron pledged Friday that no effort will be spared to track down and prosecute unknown attackers who chopped down an olive tree planted in homage to a French Jew murdered in 2006.

The commemorative tree for Ilan Halimi, planted 14 years ago in the northern Paris suburb of Epinay-sur-Seine, was felled on Wednesday night, seemingly with a chainsaw. The town posted a photo on its Facebook page showing the tree’s leafy, bushy top completely severed from its base, leaving just the stump poking from the ground.

“Cutting down the tree that honoured Ilan Halimi is an attempt to kill him for a second time,” Macron posted on X. “It will not succeed: the Nation will not forget this child of France, killed because he was Jewish.”

“All means are being deployed to p

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