The murder of a man of the Jewish faith on August 19 in Longperrier in Seine-et-Marne has no anti-Semitic motivation at this stage of the investigation, announced the deputy prosecutor of Meaux in a press release.

On August 21, a 24-year-old man presented himself to the police and said he had killed two days earlier, Liyahou H., aged 44, who was hosting him, relates Hervé Tétier, acting prosecutor of Meaux.

At his home in Longperrier, a town of 2,000 inhabitants in Seine-et-Marne, the body of the victim had been discovered "buried in the ground".

His autopsy established "a violent death by stabbing".

A source close to the case said Monday that he had been killed with an ax and a knife.

On August 23, the suspect was indicted for “voluntary homicide” and placed in pre-trial detention.

Jewish organizations react

"He explained that his action had taken place in response to the touching lavished on him by the victim in a context of alcoholism", indicates the assistant prosecutor, specifying that the defendant "declared to have known the victim for several years and to have been hosted at her house, intermittently”.

Monday, this drama found an echo with the reactions of various Jewish organizations on social networks, evoking an anti-Semitic murder from a Facebook profile attributed to the suspect.

One of the photos posted by this account notably shows a man burning an Israeli flag.

The investigation can still rebound

"We hope to obtain information quickly and ask that all avenues be explored at this stage, including the possibility of the aggravating factor of anti-Semitism", tweeted the president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), Yonathan Arfi. .

The Crif expresses its full solidarity with the family of Eliahou Haddad, killed on August 19 in Longperrier (77).


We hope for information quickly and ask that all avenues be explored at this stage, including the possibility of the aggravating factor of anti-Semitism.

— Yonathan Arfi (@Yonathan_Arfi) August 29, 2022

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According to the public prosecutor's press release, "if the investigation did not include any objective element bringing to light a discriminatory motivation, and in particular anti-Semitic, any element making it possible to establish it will give rise to requisitions from the public prosecutor's office tending to aggravate the penal classification adopted”.

The lawyer for the relatives of the deceased, Elie Korchia, affirms that "the family wants the whole truth about what could have led to such an atrocious crime, with an outburst of violence".

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