Meanwhile in France, a Muslim who murdered his Jewish neighbor gets let off for being high

The Times of Israel

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Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried.

In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld rulings by lower tribunals that Kobili Traore cannot stand trial in the 2017 killing of Sarah Halimi because he was too high on marijuana to be criminally responsible for his actions.

The handling of Halimi’s slaying has been a watershed event for many French Jews, who say it underlines the French state’s failures in dealing with anti-Semitism.

Traore broke into the third-story apartment of Halimi, a physician and educator in her 60s, shouted about Allah, called her a demon and pummeled her. The intruder then threw Halimi out the window.

An appeals court said Traore, now in his early 30s, had anti-Semitic bias and that the killing was partly connected to it. But it also accepted the defense claims that Traore was too high to be tried for his actions and he was placed at a psychiatric facility.

The CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities called it a “miscarriage of justice.” The founder of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, a communal watchdog known as BNVCA, said he “no longer had full confidence that anti-Semitic hate crimes in France are handled properly.”

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I mean, as bad as Ashlii Babbit’s death was, this is so much worse. My God. He was high on fricking weed and then went and murdered some innocent old woman. I can’t speak for everyone, but when I get high I’ve never contemplated a murder.

Jews, get the hell out of Europe. History is repeating itself. I would say come to America, but I’m not sure how much safer you’d be here with our country falling apart. On second thought I think Israel is pretty much the only place they can go now. Just sad and horrific