Overview
- The municipality will restore the memorial at the original site in the Jardin d’Alcobendas near the town hall with two replacement olive trees described as not small.
- Mayor Hervé Chevreau said the donation, initially presented as coming from a “republican and humanist group,” in fact comes from an individual donor.
- The original tree, planted in 2011, was cut down with a chainsaw on August 14 in what the town labeled an antisemitic act, and a criminal investigation remains open.
- Local authorities plan a public replanting ceremony consistent with the 2011 dedication to mark the restoration.
- LICRA honorary president Alain Jakubowicz called on all French mayors to plant a tree honoring Ilan Halimi as a civic response to antisemitism.