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.

President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister François Bayrou on Friday condemned antisemitic hatred after a tree planted in tribute to Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jewish man, was cut down. Halimi was kidnapped and tortured in January 2006.

French authorities have pledged to track down and prosecute vandals who cut down an olive tree planted in memory of a young Jewish man murdered in 2006. The memorial tree honoring Ilan Halimi was planted 14 years ago in the suburb of Épinay-sur-Seine,