(AFP) Thousands of protesters gathered in several French cities and Israel on Sunday to denounce a court’s refusal of a trial for a man who killed a 65-year-old Jewish woman, after experts determined he acted in a “delirious fit” due to heavy marijuana use.
The decision infuriated the victim’s family as well as Jewish groups, and prompted President Emmanuel Macron to urge a change in French law to ensure people face responsibility for violent crimes while under the influence of drugs.
Sarah Halimi was pushed out the window of her Paris flat by neighbour Kobili Traore, 27, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest).
The country’s highest court said this month that while the murder was anti-Semitic, Traore could not be held criminally responsible since he had acted in a state of dementia.
