Man Who Threw Elderly Jewish Woman Off Balcony Avoids Trial Due to Weed Use
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A court ruled that a man suspected of killing a woman in an act of antisemitism will not be put on trial after it was revealed that he allegedly smoked marijuana prior to the murder.
The Court of Cassation in France decreed on Wednesday that Kobili Traoré, who is accused of pushing his elderly Jewish neighbor Sarah Halimi off of her apartment balcony in 2017, would not be charged. According to a report from Jewish News, the ruling was consistent with the decisions of other lower courts.
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Highest French Court Rules Killer of Jewish Woman Cannot Stand Trial
To the alarm of Jewish leaders, Sarah Halimi’s killer will go unpunished because of his mental state, brought on by cannabis, at the time of the crime.
Members of the French Jewish community met in Paris’ Place de la Republique in January 2020 to demand a trial for the murder of Sarah Halimi, who was killed in 2017.Credit.Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock
April 17, 2021Updated 1:45 p.m. ET
PARIS The highest court in France has ruled that the man who killed a Jewish woman in 2017 in an anti-Semitic frenzy cannot stand trial because he was in a state of acute mental delirium brought on by his consumption of cannabis.
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By Hamodia Staff
Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 6:01 am | ג אייר תשפ א
The Court of Cassation in Paris, one of France’s courts of last resort.
France’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that the suspected murderer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi,
Hy”d, was not criminally responsible and could not go on trial, provoking anger from anti-racism groups who say the verdict puts Jews at risk.
Mrs. Halimi, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties, died in 2017 after her neighbor Kobili Traoré, 27, shouted in Arabic “
All–
hu Akbar (G-d is greatest)” and recited a number of verses in the Koran before throwing her over the balcony of a Belleville apartment, located in the east of Paris.
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