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] February. A ] friar and his servant are found dead in ] before Jewish ], and the Turkish governor and the French consul believe the ] accusations. A fake investigation is staged and Solomon Negrin, a Jewish barber, confesses under torture accusing other Jews. Two die under torture, one converts to Islam to escape it. More arrests and atrocities follow, culminating in the seizure of sixty-three Jewish children held as hostages and mob attacks on Jewish communities throughout the ].
Sir ], backed by European influentials (British ], French lawyer Adolphe Cremieux, missonary John Nicolayson, among others), leads a delegation to the ruler of ] ] in ]. He secures the release of the captives and pursuades the ] of ] to issue a ''firman'' (edict) stopping the spread of blood libels in the ].