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

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and he was placed at a psychiatric facility

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Is he out now?

He actually sounded like he was experiencing a psychiatric event and COVID is known to attack the brain.

Dr Sarah Attal-Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, who was a retired physician and mother of three children,[6] was beaten and defenestrated. It is uncertain if she was killed before the fall or if death occurred as a result of the fall. This occurred at her residence, a third-floor apartment in the Belleville district of Paris on 4 April 2017.[7][8]
Kobili Traoré, a 27-year-old neighbor, a drug dealer and drug addict claimed insanity and was promptly held in a psychiatric hospital.[9][10] An African immigrant from Mali,[11] Traoré was reportedly enraged following a family dispute and gained access to the neighbouring apartment of a different family, who immediately locked themselves into a bedroom, phoned police for help, and waited in fear as they listened to the intruder reciting verses from the Quran.[10]
The police are believed to have first gone to the wrong building while Traoré climbed a balcony from the apartment where the family was sheltering behind a locked door, to the apartment of Halimi, the only Jewish resident of the building.[5] When police finally arrived at the apartment the intruder had entered first, they delayed entering while they awaited the arrival of an elite squad, while more phone calls came in to the police emergency hotline reporting a woman screaming as a man apparently beat her and shouted "shut your mouth", "Allahu Akbar", and "I killed the Shaitan".[9][10][12]
After throwing Halimi from a third-floor window, Traoré returned to the first apartment where the family, still cowering in a room and awaiting the police, again heard him praying aloud.[10][13][14]
The second district of the judicial police (2nd DPJ) of Paris was responsible for the investigation. On 7 April 2017, prosecutor François Molins, who opened a case for deliberate homicide, declared that the murder could not at that time be considered as an antisemitic act but that this possibility would be explored by the investigators.[15]
The Libération newspaper reported that Traoré had never been confined to a psychiatric hospital before but had been imprisoned several times for offenses including aggravated violence. Toxicological analysis revealed the presence of cannabis in his blood. Having been taken into custody without resistance, Traoré later fought with police and was judged by a doctor to require transfer to a psychiatric hospital. He had not been interrogated by police. The results of the psychiatric assessment were planned for mid-June, then postponed until the end of August.[15]
Legal proceedings and complaints[edit]
Halimi's sister-in-law lodged a complaint on 20 June 2017 to denounce the inertia of the police and its lack of coordination.[16]
On 10 July 2017, Kobili Traoré was apprehended and heard by the investigating judge. He recognized the facts about the murder, while denying any antisemitic motivation: "I felt like possessed. I felt oppressed by an external force, a demonic force." He attributes his condition to cannabis consumption.[17]
On 12 July 2017, Traoré was "charged with intentional homicide against Mrs Attal-Halimi and for forcible confinement" of the neighboring family via whose apartment he climbed into Halimi's apartment. He was placed under warrant but remained in hospital. Brigitte Kuster, a member of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, referred the matter to the Minister of the Interior.[18] In September 2017, the prosecutor officially characterized the murder as an "antisemitic" crime.[19]
In February 2018, the investigator in charge admitted in writing the antisemitic nature of the killing as had already been indicated to Agence France-Presse (AFP) by a judicial source.[20][21][22][23]
In July 2019, an examining magistrate ruled that Traoré was likely not criminally responsible because he had smoked cannabis before killing Halimi;[1] this was affirmed at the end of 2019 by the Paris Court of Appeal[2][24] and in 2021 by the Court of Cassation, which is the final court of appeal in France.[4][25] Lawyers for Halimi's family subsequently announced their intention to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.[25]

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He actually sounded like he was experiencing a psychiatric event and COVID is known to attack the brain.

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He killed her in 2017.