Nicolas Sarkozy meets freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit

Mr Sarkozy praised the young Israeli for his “exemplary courage” and his
parents for “their determination and their dignity in the face of the ordeal
and the anguish,” according to a statement from the president’s office.

At an annual dinner later held by the French-Jewish community, Mr Sarkozy
castigated the Hamas captors.

“Shame … on those who did that,” he said, adding that “no idea, no ideology,
no situation can justify what was done to Gilad Shalit.”

Hamas-allied militants captured Mr Shalit in a 2006 cross-border raid, and his
plight captured Israel’s attention for years.

Mr Sarkozy praised Israel for its own dogged efforts to return one of its
sons, calling it a mark of Israel’s democracy “because in a democracy we
attach importance to one life” and “every family in Israel knows he can have
a Gilad Shalit.”

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