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

The French president said the felling of the tree honouring Ilan Halimi was "an attempt to kill him a second time".

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.