Justice for Sarah Halimi

France is denying justice for the brutal anti-Semitic murder of a 65-year old Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi. Yelling “Allah Akbar” and anti-Semitic slogans, 27-year old, Kolibi Traore, brutally beat and murdered his Jewish neighbor, throwing her out the third-floor window of her apartment in France in 2017.

Already in 2002, the Brookings Institution quoted an Israeli government official that France was the “worst Western country” for anti-Semitism and they feared that France’s 600,000 Jews may be in “great danger.” The French government’s attitude was summed up by their official who stated that Israel was a “s—ty little country!” Anti-Semitic acts in France were up 74% in 2018 and another 27% in 2019. In 2019, the New York Times reported that the French Interior Minister openly admitted that “Anti-Semitism is spreading like a poison; like a bile” in France. In 2020, Judith Miller in the New York Post, reported that “the most dangerous place to be a Jew in Europe is France” and France is failing to fight it!

The case of the Sarah Halimi is yet another example of the anti-Semitism taking deep root in France, where rather than ensuring Justice for her barbaric murder, a second French court has now absurdly affirmed a lower-court ruling that the alleged perpetrator Traore cannot be held criminally responsible simply because he was on marijuana! Incredibly, these French justices ruled in this completely nonsensical way even as cannabis is being ruled legal for medicinal and even recreational purposes in more and more countries around the world.

I have two simple questions for the French justices that voted to acquit the Anti-Semitic, murderer Kolibi Traore:

Are all violent and other criminals in France that are on drugs released and not held accountable for their actions? If this was the case then a country the size of France with 67 million citizens would be releasing tens of thousands or more serious criminals, as wholly unaccountable and exempt from any sort justice for their hateful, racist, violent and non-violent criminal actions.
Imagine if this was personal for the justices in France, and it was one of their own (an actual Judge or family member) that was, G-d forbid, the victim of a brutal and vicious attack; would they still interpret the law in such a way that the criminal was not held responsible for their actions simple because they had taken a few puffs or perhaps had just a little too much booze—could it really be that simple to commit sick, heinous crimes in France?

It is inconceivable that a modern, western nation as France (part of the EU, NATO, the UN, etc.) would allow violent, racist, hate-mongers, and murders completely off the hook simply because they were high on some cannabis or for any other lame excuse like that. This is not rational. It is not human or civilized. And it is certainly not justice. Jewish blood is not cheap and Kolibi Traore cannot be allowed to go free. France needs to make this right because Sarah Halimi, a citizen of France, was butchered there because she was a Jew, and letting radical Islamists commit violence and terror like this is a danger not just to the French, but to everybody.