Paris will soon inaugurate in its historic Jewish quarter a street named for Sarah Halimi, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said amid protests over authorities’ handling of the killing. Hidalgo made the announcement on Sunday following a rally by about 20,000 people, mostly Jews, who demonstrated against the April 14 ruling by France’s highest court on the […]
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French Jews on why they protest over Sarah Halimi, in their own words
The fallout of a French court’s decision in the Sarah Halimi murder case has become a watershed moment for French Jews. The 31-year-old devout Muslim who killed the Jewish doctor is avoiding a trial because his consumption of marijuana rendered him temporarily psychotic at the time of the murder in 2017, France’s high court ruled […]
French Judge Resigns in Protest of Sarah Halimi Verdict
A French judge resigned from his position on April 23 in protest of the verdict involving Sarah Halimi’s suspected killer. Halimi was killed in April 2017 after being beaten and thrown out of her window. Her suspected killer, Kobili Traore, allegedly shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” while attacking her and “I have killed the sheitan! [demon]” after […]
Halimi case: Rivlin writes to Macron
Browse > Home / News / Halimi case: Rivlin writes to Macron April 29, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article President of Israel Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin yesterday sent a letter to President Emmanuel Macron of France regarding the decision that the accused in the murder of Sarah Halimi ז”ל is unfit to stand […]
Charlie Hebdo’s Sarah Halimi cover: Should antisemitism be decriminalized?
French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo reacted on Wednesday to the recent decision by the French Court of Cassation to absolve the 2017 murderer of Sarah Halimi of criminal responsibility because he took cannabis before he killed her, and made it a cover that says it all: “Should we decriminalize antisemitism?” The cover reads: “Should we […]
Chief Rabbi Lau: Halimi case ‘an abominable injustice,’ calls for retrial
Chief Rabbi David Lau has condemned the recent decision by the French Court of Cassation absolving the murderer of Sarah Halimi of criminal responsibility for his actions, and called for him to be retried.Writing in a letter to the Halimi family on Tuesday, Lau said that he was “outraged” by the decision and cited a […]
For French Jews, naming streets and laws after Sarah Halimi isn’t enough
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Protests scheduled around the world against Sarah Halimi ruling
Protests have been scheduled in Paris and around the world against the recent decision by the French Court of Cassation to absolve the 2017 murderer of Sarah Halimi in Paris of criminal responsibility because he took cannabis before he killed her.The demonstration in Paris will take place at the Place Du Trocadero, close to the […]
Sarah Halimi’s family lawyers take complaint to Israel courts
When the highest French court of appeals ruled last week that the murderer of Sarah Halimi could not be held criminally accountable for his actions since he took cannabis before he committed the crime, the French Jewish community was appalled, and shocked. So were Jews around the world. Several Jewish organizations plan to protest the […]
Macron asks for change in law after French court won’t prosecute Halimi’s killer
Browse > Home / News / Macron asks for change in law after French court won’t prosecute Halimi’s killer April 20, 2021 by JNS Read on for article France’s President Emmanuel Macron urged an immediate change to French law after a court ruled that a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 was not […]
France’s Macron calls for change in law following Sarah Halimi ruling
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a change in the law after the highest French court of appeals last week ruled the murderer of Sarah Halimi could not be held criminally accountable for his actions since he took cannabis before he committed the crime. “Deciding to take drugs and then ‘becoming mad’ should not […]
France top court confirms Sarah Halimi murderer ‘irresponsible’ for taking cannabis
The murderer of Sarah Halimi was not responsible for his actions because he smoked marijuana prior to the crime, France’s Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The Court began its deliberations on March 4 on whether or not to overrule the lower court’s decision not to try Kobili Traoré for killing […]
In France, if you smoke cannabis you can kill a Jew – Sarah Halimi case goes to high court
In France, if you smoke cannabis, you can kill a Jew. That’s basically what France’s lower court decided in December 2019, after excusing the alleged antisemitic murderer of a Jewish woman from a criminal trial because of his heavy intake of cannabis that supposedly compromised his “discernment,” or consciousness. France’s Court of Cassation (appellate) began […]