Kobili Traore gets away with murder. Might this decision have anything to do with the severe criticism France has received from Islamic leaders for daring to oppose jihad violence? How else does this decision make any sense?
“French court upholds decision not to try Muslim man who killed Jewish woman Sarah Halimi,” by Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA, April 14, 2021:
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 Halimi. The intruder then threw Halimi out the window.
Traore then shouted out the window, “A lady has fallen out the window,” and fled the scene, witnesses said. Police caught him nearby.
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.”
Wellington says
Beyond a cruel joke. It’s rank cowardice and stupidity abetting evil.
mortimer says
How can any judge endorse this variation on ‘I was drunk and therefore didn’t know what I was doing?’ This is a murder of human being killed by a bigot because of her religion.
This defense argument has been mocked (with justification) as ‘Get high, kill a Jew’.
This is the worst miscarriage of justice. A woman is dead. This was deliberate, rather than an accident.
gravenimage says
+1
Hudson says
Remember, this defense only works for Muslims… because they’re special in the eyes of the law in France. And disagreeing is Islamophobia.
Mount Zion says
Can you imagine what would happen if a muslim woman had been thrown out the window and the perpetrator got off because he was high on marijuana .It’s all over the news and muslim organisations decry islamophobia when an alleged hijab get’s pulled from a lying muslim women by an alleged perpetrator , only when it comes to an actual murder case in which a muslim is the killer then all these muslim organisations like CARE who claim to be human rights advocates are silent on the matter and don’t utter a word of rebuke or dissaproval .
Siddi Nasrani says
It seems in French Law that a Jew is worth less than a Dog !!
Marseille: dog thrown from the 4th floor, the author sentenced to one year in prison
The man, drunk and on cocaine, who killed his neighbor’s dog by throwing it out of the window was sentenced to prison. He was imprisoned awaiting trial.
The 51-year-old Marseillais, accused of having thrown his neighbor’s dog out of the 4th floor window on New Year’s Eve, was sentenced on February 10. He was sentenced to two years in prison, one of which was suspended.
Velma Ronquille says
True, if he didnt know what he was doing it wasn’t because of MJ, it is because he was taught to hate and killing was expected by his religion. He is a mad dog who needs to be put down.
JCA Reid says
Disgusting. So now, killers can simply say, ” I’m a non-smoker, but I was under the influence of alcohol at the time. Can I go home now?” It is against Islamic Law to take drugs. Lunatics really are taking over the Asylum! Seems any type of Law does not apply to Muslims.
Rob says
As Monty Python said: ‘The French are ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’.
Halaku says
Look at the bright side: the gutsy French didn’t apologize for all the inconvenience caused to the man.
mccode says
Ergo, any criminal act committed in France is to be excused if the perpetrator is “high” ?
A precedent for disaster……
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
And if it *were* true that people smoking weed turned into murderous thugs, then marijuana would have to be the most closely of controlled substances.
Halaku says
Only if the perp of the crime is a Muslim.
gregbeetham says
It’s just further evidence that Western institutions are no longer fit for purpose, they have failed us.
Keith O says
So now smoking a herb that is used in many parts of the world to calm people down is now used as an excuse for murdering someone in Allahs name!
Dapto says
So politicians are fair game to murder if your high on marijuana and you’ll get away with it ?
gravenimage says
France: Court upholds decision not to try Muslim who killed Jewish woman, since he was high on marijuana
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Utter madness. Lots of people smoke marijuana–most of them don’t brutally murder people.
mike says
no problem the Koran says it’s death to ones who do drugs
Justice served
gravenimage says
Murdering Jews trumps using drugs in Islam. You are mistaken in believing that this murderer would be punished in most of Dar-al-Islam.
Roland says
The French judges had the discretionary power to convict the murderer, but they refused to do so. They prove that the French are irredeemably antisemitic, whether leftist or of the old-fashioned Catholic variety. Jews have always been expendable in modern France. Dreyfus, Vichy, now this case.
tim gallagher says
I’m with the other commenters. This is insanity. There is no justice whatsoever in this decision. Imagine how the relatives of the murdered woman feel. Her life seems to given no value whatsoever by a decision like this. And I guess also that a ludicrous decision like this then sets a legal precedent and defence lawyers will attempt to use this decision to get other murderers off. Sometimes the people that make these types of decisions seem to be about as moronically stupid as those Muslim “scholars” that come out with unbelievably stupid pronouncements all the time. The worst aspect of this decision is the way that the murdered woman’s life is given zero value.
nicholas tesdorf says
Being drunk used to be a mitigating circumstance in French Road Accidents and now it seems that being high on marijuana is an extenuating circumstance in French Murders. Of Course, being a Muslim is a mitigating circumstance for anyone one, for anything, anywhere these days.
Walter Sieruk says
That ruling decision of French court was awful and unjust. That court of France must of been full of politically correct ,pro-Islamic and anti-Semitic or it was the simple situation that the people who consisted that court caved in under fear violent Muslim backlash if that Islamic murder was put on trial and found guilty as he should have been.
Furthermore, being “high on marijuana” is is a terrible excuse for letting that murderous Muslim go free.
First of all marijuana generally makes people docile not violent . Nevertheless if really was an exception to that rule, which is highly doubtful that is still no excuse whatsoever.
The reason that this is so is because if a person willfully takes any type of drug that he knows , or should know, that will change his behavior for the worst than that person is very guilty for terrible criminal action.
mgoldberg says
Imagine if it were an older women, a muslim women, and a jewish guy in his late 20’s, screams hateful comments about muslims at her and beats her and throws her off the balcony.
Imagine what the French would do, what a French judge would do that were the scenario. Imagine what the muslim mobs would do, burning down with glee buildings, burning down a police station. And what would the media do with that story. Yes, after the thunderous calls for national teaching about ‘islamophobia, and the fiercely pursued criminal prosecution, there would be calls for a national discussion about the fears of muslims.
James Lincoln says
Yes mgoldberg,
That is the likely scenario…
Dave Mcloughlin says
I try to be an optimist. I believe that in civilized countries, if you are “sanctioned” / “committed” in to what we used to call “looney bins” for violence, it is extremely difficult to get released. Even harder post lobotomy, which appears to be required.
john smith says
muslims have been getting away with rape in Europe for decades, now it seems they are going to get away with murder.
This is just the beginning, it will be one rule for them and another for everyone else.
Hudson says
If you want to kill someone in France, just remember to smoke a joint first.
Kathleen Walsh says
I can’t imagine the pain the family of the innocent victim thrown over the balcony like a dog are going through. Smoke a joint and kill a Jew is ok in France.?
Rape and abuse our girls in the UK over decades is fine too. Muslims can get away with any crime it seems.
Vivre Le Pen.