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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