Several thousand people gathered on Sunday at Place du Trocadéro in Paris to demand "justice for Sarah Halimi". The murderer of this Jewish woman who was killed in 2017 was deemed criminally irresponsible. A decision contested by the family and also elected officials. On this occasion, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced that a street in the city would bear the name of Sarah Halimi.
Several thousand people gathered on Sunday in France and in particular in Paris, at the call of citizens' collectives and representatives of the Jewish community, to contest the lack of trial after the murder of Sarah Halimi in 2017. Under the word of order "Without justice, no Republic", the Parisian demonstrators met at the Place du Trocadéro at the initiative of a collective, "Agissons pour Sarah Halimi".
The messages "No law without justice", "Justice broken?"
or "Justice for Sarah Halimi" were written on signs held up in the crowd.
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Many personalities present
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo was present and announced that a street in Paris would bear the name of Sarah Halimi.
"This is a project that we are going to work on with the family. […] It is also a way of doing it justice," she said.
Personalities including Yvan Attal, Pascal Légitimus, Alexandre Arcady and Cyril Hanouna were also on site and showed their "solidarity" towards the Halimi family and calling for "change the law", via messages broadcast on a giant screen.
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A bill presented at the end of May
Shortly before, Sunday, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti had announced the presentation "at the end of May" in the Council of Ministers of a bill aimed at "filling" a "legal vacuum", after the Court of Cassation confirmed the criminal irresponsibility of the murderer of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian who was killed in 2017 in Paris. This announcement is made following a request from President Emmanuel Macron.
This mobilization follows the confirmation, on April 14, by the Court of Cassation, of the criminal irresponsibility of the murderer of the Jewish sexagenarian killed in 2017 in Paris, hospitalized in psychiatry since this crime.
The highest court of the judiciary confirmed the anti-Semitic nature of the crime, but confirmed the impossibility of trying the murderer, given the abolition of his discernment during the facts.
A murderer in the throes of a "delirious puff"
According to the seven psychiatric experts who examined him, Kobili Traoré, a heavy cannabis user, was in the throes of a "delirious puff" when he killed his 65-year-old neighbor, Lucie Attal, also known as Sarah Halimi.
The Paris Court of Appeal had concluded that there was a mental disorder that had abolished its judgment or the control of its acts at the time of the facts, which the Court of Cassation deemed to be in accordance with the law. The impossibility of a trial has aroused great misunderstanding within a part of the French Jewish community, targeted by several deadly attacks in recent years.