As has become a troubling trend in the West related to some of the most horrific crimes against non-Muslims, claiming “mental issues” as an excuse has become the new ‘Get-Out-of-Jail-Free’ card for Muslim perpetrators. A French court recently ruled that Kobili Traoré (photo right), a Muslim, would not stand trial for brutally torturing and murdering his neighbor, Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish woman, saying that Traoré had a “temporary abolition of discernment” from smoking marijuana.
Gatestone Institute April 4, 2017. Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish woman, is thrown from her third-floor balcony or window. Her body lands in the building’s courtyard. Her murderer first had tortured her. Neighbors had heard screams and called the police. Nine officers came, but when they heard through the door a man shouting “Allahu Akbar”, they ran downstairs to wait for reinforcements.
When Kobili Traoré finally surrendered, he said, “I killed the sheitan” (Arabic for “Satan”). While torturing his victim, he said, he had recited verses from the Qur’an, and the Qur’an had “ordered him to kill a Jew”. He said he had spent the previous day in a nearby mosque. He was placed in a mental institution, where he told the psychiatrist who examined him that he smoked marijuana.
Sarah Halimi’s brother, William Attal, spoke in detail about what Halimi had suffered. The details of the autopsy report were excruciating:
“All the bones in her face had been broken, mandible, maxilla, frontal bone, nasal bones, and zygoma, some by a hard object, maybe a hammer, and her body had been punctured 22 times. He denounced the inaction of the police, the cowardice of the justices and the silence of the media. He reported facts which, until then, had not been revealed: one of the police officers who had gone to the crime scene had not come back downstairs with his colleagues. Even though he was armed, he had stayed behind the door. He had not moved. He had just listened to the murderer shouting “Allahu Akbar” and the victim screaming in pain.”
In an article published by Haaretz, Shirli Sitbon wrote:
“In France, perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks claim insanity to elude justice. The mental illness defense has become more prevalent when it comes to hate crimes in France. And it seems to be working.”
She went on to say, citing precedents, that a sinister series of events had begun with the murder of Sebastien Sellam in 2003. Although the murderer, Adel Amastaibou, had told the police “If he’s dead, I’m so happy, that f ***ing Jew, that dirty Jew,” Sellam was declared not responsible due to “mental problems.”
The murder was not mentioned in the newspapers. A French Jewish organizations spoke of a “distressing anti-Semitic crime” and organized a silent demonstration in front of Halimi’s building. It was only then that a few articles were written. The French presidential election was about to take place, and journalists from the mainstream media apparently did not want to speak about an anti-Semitic murder committed by a Muslim.
The judge assigned to the case, Anne Ihuellou, at first refused to acknowledge that the murder had been a hate crime. It took the Halimi family’s lawyers more than six months to get her finally to concede, on February 27, 2018, that the motive for the murder had in fact been anti-Semitic.
The judge also refused to organize a review of the events of the case, and agreed to question Traoré only briefly. She called in a psychiatric expert, Daniel Zagury, who said that at the time of the act, the murderer had been in a state of “acute delirium” due to the consumption of cannabis, but fully “accessible to a penal sanction.” Seemingly dissatisfied with Dr. Zagury’s conclusions, Judge Ihuellou asked for two more opinions by experts — both of whom, contradicting Dr. Zagury’s conclusions, said that the Traoré was unfit to stand trial.
On July 12, 2019, the judge dismissed Dr. Zagury’s report, declared that there are “plausible reasons for concluding that the murderer is not criminally responsible” and stated that the attack had not been anti-Semitic.
Realizing that Traoré could soon be released without trial, the Halimi family’s lawyers requested that the case immediately be transferred to a court of appeals.
That court, issuing its decision on December 19, declared that Kobili Traoré had “voluntarily killed” Sarah Halimi and had thereby committed a murder. The court also acknowledged the “aggravating circumstance of anti-Semitism,” but added that due to a “temporary abolition of discernment,” the murderer was “criminally irresponsible,” could not be tried, and therefore had to be released.
The president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), Francis Kalifat, remarked
“an anti-Semitic murder could become the only murder excused by the courts on the basis of the use of drugs, while in all other cases, drugs are an aggravating factor.”
A lawyer for the Halimi family, Francis Szpiner, said
“a ‘Sarah Halimi jurisprudence’ has been created: “anyone who suffers from a delusional puff because of the use of illicit and dangerous substances will be exempt from criminal responsibility.”
Another lawyer for the victim’s family, Gilles-William Goldnadel, expressed his “disgust,” and said:
“if the victim were not Jewish and if the murderer were not a Muslim, the decision could have been different.”
A member of parliament, Meyer Habib, commented
“the court’s decision was a “judicial scandal never seen in France” and added that there is “an obvious desire on the part of the French judiciary system to exonerate an anti-Semitic Islamic murderer.”
A psychiatrist, Claude Bloch, noted
“the ruling may “allow anyone with fierce hatred for Jews to murder them with impunity.”
The eminent historian, Georges Bensoussan, said in an interview with Le Figaro:
“… the French judicial system chose to avoid a trial so that no one will talk about an immigration which is not well integrated, and, in certain cases today, is undergoing the effect of a process of Islamization.”
On January 5, French Jewish organizations organized a protest to demand that the judiciary reverse its decision. All the French political organizations remained silent; none joined the protest. The mainstream media observed virtually a total silence on the subject. Only Jews came to the demonstration.
84% of young French Jews are have been victims of anti-Semitism at least once
Marijuana is a sedative. All Muslums are mentally ill, so they will all be found not responsible for their crimes, I guess.
To embrace the teachings in the quran is a mental sickness in the first place.
Smoking marijuana does NOT make a person crazy enough to kill, that is total bullshit, in fact the exact opposite is true as it will cause you to make and feel love, eat ice cream, dance and make music, and to use weed as a M.O. for murder is a bloody disgrace.
If he was smoking Crack, or Crank I would be more understanding as those two drugs makes a person extremely insane and seriously paranoid. I know of what I speak.
muslims around the World are laughing their hairy backsides off at our level of tolerance as they see that as our weakness while we see it as our strength.
This savage may well do this again because he got away with murder, in what universe does that work?
The idiot judge must have “Reefer Madness” at home on dvd. unfknblvbl
I know that the Soros replacement agenda is the worlds top priority with the leftists, communists, ANTIFA, and turd world loving people actively involved in the genocide of everyone that is not muslim. we need to grow a set and put these monsters down. If we don’t the plague will continue.
The poor Jewish lady’s soul will never know peace and nor will her family. The guy is a murderer and he’ll murder again and he’ll use a knife. And the judge will carry the blame.
This precious woman had the same name as precious IIan Halimi whose suffering caused me mental and emotional agony.
I will never forget IIan Halimi.
Dear Precious Ilan Halimi: The police did not inform the public about your abduction; preventing an alerted public from helping locate you. Preventing millions around the world praying for you.
Apparently, the police did not trace the phone calls and emails your captors made to your family-it was reported in the communications, your captors referred repeatedly to your Judaism, and recited verses from the Koran as you screamed in agony.
Dear Ilan, you will never experience the undying love of a wife, the young woman who would have been your life-long partner…
You will never know the children you would have had –- come running towards you with out flung arms, “Abba, daddy, I picked these flowers just for you!”
You were going to make aliyah, for G-D said in the Bible, Ezekiel 36:28: “You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers.”
Jews gave the world so much: Civilization – knowledge
of the One true G-D, the Bible, G-D’s laws that protect!
And huge numbers of discoveries in medicine, science and agriculture, etc. way beyond the Jews’ small numbers upon this earth! Fulfillments of G-D’s Biblical promise…
PRECIOUS Ilan, We Will NEVER FORGET YOU!
The Biblical promise, that through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all the nations would be blessed!
Ilan, a light went out in the world when you left it! G-D promised in the Bible, a future world where the violent, evil ones will never again hurt another human being. We will see you, then, Ilan.
Until then, precious Ilan, we will never forget you.
Beautiful, Slaughtered French Jewish sisters, rest in eternal peace with the angels.
French police, authorities and government are completely SATANIC. They are complicit and responsible for every dirty, demonic violent Muslim attack on Jews. They share the same murderous hate for Jews as Muslims.
Bible, Deuteronomy 32;35
Vengeance is Mine, and retribution…
To keep the diabolical murderers of helpless (Jewish) victims alive makes the French authorities equally guilty. I’m not well versed in biblical quotes, but believe that the One we pray to would want the butchery of innocents by insane monsters to be avenged by righteous people in the here and now. Execute the Inhuman Demons on the spot! (lee Rigby is still waiting for justice. . .)
I personally think that the reality is that you actually have to be mentally ill to be a Muslim in the first place. That’s without even committing a crime!!! When you look at the criteria for certain mental illnesses…the scumbags fill out about all of them!!! Get out any DSM Psychiatric Diagnostic Codes and this will bear out what I am saying. Not only psychiatrically is this born out, but the laws of most countries and religions. Only the scumbags think its normal and ‘healthy’ to have sex with animals, to be pedophiles, that lying, stealing, killing, assaulting anyone is OK!!!! Now that I think about it, that last observation covers democrats too!!!
The authorities are not acting when after claiming to have consumed drugs, criminals plea a ” state of temporary abolition of discernment and acute delirium ” when murdering Jews – courts adjudicate that they are not criminally responsible so the criminals must be released to repeat the performance – one day surely the French will say that when they killed the Jews we didn’t do anything about it and now that they are killing us there is no one left to stop them.
SF, Muslims have already killed far more French Christians than Jews. But they don’t seem overly concerned about it.
Hatred is the main motivator in Muslim lives. They are consumed by it, especially hatred of history’s main scapegoats, the ever-blamed Jews. Will never change. Its insanity is injected into the devil spawn of Muslim females in the womb. Jews and allies in the diaspora must retaliate for every violent act committed against them. No just taking it; those days are or should be over. Strike back against Islamic evil with vengeful force!
That has become standard practice in France and Germany. This way they won’t enhance the national murder crime stats category of foreign (Muslim) perpetrators.
Islamists are the cruelest people in the World——-They should not have been allowed into our well structured lives——-To Murder Torture and Rape and Pillage——-Our Ancestors dealt with this so we could at least live decent lives——-