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French Judiciary Frees Extremist Antisemitic Murderer gatestoneinstitute.org/17349/france-a…

Paris, April 4, 2017. 4:00 am. A man breaks into the home of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old retired Jewish physician and educator. He beats and tortures her for over an hour while reciting verses from the Quran and repeatedly shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" [Allah is the greatest!"].

He uses anti-Semitic slurs and calls her "Sheitan" (Satan). He throws her from the balcony of her apartment and she falls to the ground, three floors below, dead. The police arrest him.

What happened was an unspeakable antisemitic murder. It was also the start of a process that brought to light once again the many serious and shameful dysfunctions that mark today's France.

The murderer, Kobili Traore, an immigrant from Mali who became a French citizen, is a recidivist criminal who had already been arrested and sentenced by the courts 20 times for violent assaults. He was nonetheless free.

His only known professional activity is, in two words: drug dealer. He told the officers who arrested him that he is a drug addict and had smoked marijuana in the hours before the murder.

As a drug dealer, convicted time and again for violent assault, he was free to reoffend. This time, however, he committed murder.

The testimonies of Sarah Halimi's neighbors revealed that the police arrived at the scene of the murder while she was still alive.

The police officers apparently went upstairs to her apartment door, heard her screaming and another voice shouting in Arabic. What did they do?

They went back downstairs and waited for reinforcements -- until the victim was dead.

They left the murderer alone with his victim. Why is this not a clear case of dereliction of duty?

Yet, no investigation has been carried out to determine what, if anything, was the responsibility of the police.

The neighbors' testimonies also revealed that Traore had met Dr. Halimi and her daughter several times in the stairwell of the building where he had threatened them and had called them "dirty Jews".

Three days after the murder, on April 7, Paris prosecutor François Mollins nonetheless publicly declared that all the elements at his disposal showed that the murder of Sarah Halimi had "no antisemitic motive".

Joel Mergui, president of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, wrote:

"[T]his decision risks significantly eroding the confidence that the Jews of France have in the justice of their country and in its capacity to protect them....

The judiciary considered that the murderer did not have enough discernment to be judged, but, according to the same judiciary, he had enough discernment to choose his victim, remember their religion, and commit a murder recognized as anti-Semitic".