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Murder charges were dropped against an apparent jihadi killing of Dr. Sarah Halimi, 66, an orthodox Jew, by a man who screamed "Allahu akbar" and "dirty Jew!" during the brutal attack.
Dr. Halimi was tortured and murdered in her Paris apartment in April by a Muslim man with a prior record of harassment toward her. She knew this man and feared him. He lived in the same apartment complex and she formally requested that the public housing department move her to a new location.
Nothing was done.
“My sister was terribly afraid of this man, he had called her a ‘dirty Jew,’ but she was afraid that filing a complaint would be dangerous for her,” her brother William Attal explained. He spoke in an interview with French news agency AFP following the family’s decision last week to take the case to the public prosecutor.
Attal said that the family’s goal was not to have the police condemned, but for Halimi’s murder to be legally tried as a hate crime. “Our struggle is for justice to recognize that this was an Islamist and anti-Semitic murder,” Attal said.
The family was refused.
Halimi’s killer, a 27 year-old Malian immigrant, broke into her apartment on April 7 just after 4 a.m. As he subjected her to a savage beating, neighbors alerted police after hearing her screams but did nothing other than that to help her.
“I felt persecuted. When I saw the Torah and a chandelier in her home I felt oppressed. I saw her face transforming,” he said, playing the victim card and the mentally ill card.
However, in a rare turn of events, French prosecutors were divided on how to proceed. Perhaps it was just a case of psychotic misunderstanding caused by smoking a joint. He seemed like a nice guy. Maybe a stay in a mental institution and a few pills and he'd be as good as new, they pondered.
Interestingly, witnesses said in the hearing that just before the killer threw Dr. Halimi from the balcony, the killer shouted "a woman is trying to kill herself."
“My sister was terribly afraid of this man, he had called her a ‘dirty Jew,’ but she was afraid that filing a complaint would be dangerous for her,” her brother William Attal explained. He spoke in an interview with French news agency AFP following the family’s decision last week to take the case to the public prosecutor.
Attal said that the family’s goal was not to have the police condemned, but for Halimi’s murder to be legally tried as a hate crime. “Our struggle is for justice to recognize that this was an Islamist and anti-Semitic murder,” Attal said.
The family was refused.
Halimi’s killer, a 27 year-old Malian immigrant, broke into her apartment on April 7 just after 4 a.m. As he subjected her to a savage beating, neighbors alerted police after hearing her screams but did nothing other than that to help her.
Frightened officers arrived at the scene just before 5 a.m. and heard the Islamist shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” and “I have killed Shaitan!” [Arabic for ‘Satan’]. Fearing a terrorist attack was being planned, the terrified officers called for backup. But by the time anti-terror units arrived, the killer had thrown Halimi’s fractured and bruised body out of the window of her third-floor apartment. Witnesses said the killer recited Koranic verses as he threw her to her death.
Psychiatric "experts" said the killer had smoked cannabis and may have been unaware of his actions and his anti-Semitic rants, like what usually happens when one smokes too much pot, except in Canada where it's legal.
In an appeals court hearing on Wednesday the Islamist admitted to killing Dr. Halimi, claiming he was not aware of his actions on the night of the murder.
Psychiatric "experts" said the killer had smoked cannabis and may have been unaware of his actions and his anti-Semitic rants, like what usually happens when one smokes too much pot, except in Canada where it's legal.
In an appeals court hearing on Wednesday the Islamist admitted to killing Dr. Halimi, claiming he was not aware of his actions on the night of the murder.
“I felt persecuted. When I saw the Torah and a chandelier in her home I felt oppressed. I saw her face transforming,” he said, playing the victim card and the mentally ill card.
However, in a rare turn of events, French prosecutors were divided on how to proceed. Perhaps it was just a case of psychotic misunderstanding caused by smoking a joint. He seemed like a nice guy. Maybe a stay in a mental institution and a few pills and he'd be as good as new, they pondered.
Interestingly, witnesses said in the hearing that just before the killer threw Dr. Halimi from the balcony, the killer shouted "a woman is trying to kill herself."
Perhaps he didn't realize that he was trying to cover his tracks and plan a defense because he smoked some ganja.
I wonder what the outcome would have been had it been President Macron who was murdered by this guy.
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