Sarah "Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian, was killed in 2017 - Thibaut Chevillard

It is a press release of a few lines in language so polite that it could almost seem trivial in the eyes of the uninformed. “The first president of the Court of Cassation and the public prosecutor near this Court recall that the independence of the justice system, of which the President of the Republic is the guarantor, is an essential condition for the functioning of justice. These few words, in reality, constitute a real charge against the Head of State emanating from the highest French magistrates, Chantal Arens and François Molins.

[Press release] of Mrs. Chantal Arens, first president of the Court of Cassation and of Mr. François Molins, attorney general at this Court. pic.twitter.com/CN5bhyY7KK

- Court of Cassation (@Courdecassation) January 27, 2020

If the subject of the discord is not clearly raised, the magistrates refer to the remarks of Emmanuel Macron on the Sarah Halimi affair, this Jewish sixty-year-old defenestrated by Kobili Traoré on the night of April 3 to 4, 2017. Last Thursday, During his trip to Israel, Emmanuel Macron spoke of the "need for a trial" in this highly sensitive case even though the main suspect was declared criminally irresponsible on December 19. "The fact that the delirious puff is due to regular consumption of cannabis does not preclude recognition of the existence of a psychic or neuropsychic disorder that abolished his discernment or the control of his acts", had then estimated the investigative chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, while ordering the hospitalization of Kobili Traoré for a minimum of 20 years.

Appeal in cassation

Immediately rendered, the decision provoked a lively debate which took hold of many politicians, up to the head of state, therefore, last week. If he said he could not comment openly on a court decision - "I can not speak to you from the heart, because the president is the guarantor of the independence of justice" - he nevertheless took a position in favor of the family of the victim who made a cassation appeal. "A possible path", in the eyes of Emmanuel Macron. "The magistrates must be able to examine in all serenity and in all independence the appeals which are seized to them", answered the principal interested parties coldly in this concise press release.

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  • anti-Semitism
  • Emmanuel Macron
  • Paris
  • Justice
  • Trial