Is it true that in France the murderer Antemit from Mali escaped the prison due to the fact that during the crime was under high?

In the spring of 2021, information appeared that in France a young Muslim, who killed an elderly Jewish, escaped the court due to the fact that at the time of the crime was intoxicated. We checked the reliability of this news.

They shared this news with their readers, in particular, the Russian -speaking Israeli news portal Newsru.co.il and Jewish online center Jewish.ru. Social networks also distributed posts on this topic - for example, Facebook And "VKontakte".

In 2017, in Paris, the 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish Sarah Halimi fell out of the window of her apartment. It turned outthat the death of a woman was not an accident-at first he beat her, and then threw her down a 27-year-old neighbor, a native of Mali Kopili Traore. According to witnesses, the man at that time shouted "Allahu Akbar!" And "I killed the devil!" As it became known later, Traore Engaged Drug trading himself constantly smoked marijuana. Since 2017, he has been in a psychiatric hospital.

The trials in this case continued for four years. April 14, 2021 of the Supreme Cassation Court of France agreed with decisions of lower courts. They considered that Traore could not be convicted due to the fact that at the time of the murder he was in a state of “acute mental delirium” caused by the use of marijuana. This Confirmed Two psychiatric examinations. In accordance with the current French legislation, being in such a “nonsense”, regardless of what this state is caused, suggests that a person is not responsible for the acts committed at that time.

The decision of the French court caused people different feelings: from bewilderment to indignation. President Emmanuel Macron declaredthat the law needs to make changes as soon as possible. “The decision to take drugs and because of this“ go crazy ”should not be released from criminal liability,” the French leader commented on the situation. Earlier Macron criticized And the decision of the lower court in this case, provoking a sharp response of the judges who saw this an encroachment on the system of separation of powers.

The court’s decision, based on the corresponding norm of French legislation, excited the local Jewish community. President of the Council of Jewish organizations in France Francis Califat He thinksthat after such an outcome "in the country you can mock Jews with impunity and kill them." In turn, President Macron promised In the future, to support and protect the "family, relatives of the victim and all the fellow citizens of the Jewish religion."

The failed sentence was commented by the lawyers of both parties. The representative of the accused declaredWhat understands the disappointment of relatives of Halimi, but the existing law does not allow us to condemn its client. Halimi family lawyers called the court a “bad signal for French Jews” and Planning Contact the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Sister of the murdered Gathering File a lawsuit in Israel - according to local law, the Israeli court may consider cases related to anti -Semitism and committed in another country. However, France does not extradite its own citizens.

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