Posted on 05/26/21
| News Source: JNS
As many as 40,000 people participated in an online rally, along with leaders from France and Canada, to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew murdered by her Muslim neighbor in 2017.
“My mother always taught us to take responsibility. … It is very difficult for us that today, the justice system, the authorities did not assume their own responsibility,” said her son, Yonatan Halimi, adding “each of us should guarantee his own security because, unfortunately, security in France is not assured.”
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Titled “Justice for Sarah Halimi: An International Movement Is Born,” Monday’s event had been rescheduled due to two weeks of Hamas rocket fire on Israel, followed by a series of in-person global rallies earlier in May. It was sponsored by the representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) and the Combat Antisemitism Movement.
The activity comes just weeks after France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that Kobili Traoré, Halimi’s murderer, could not be tried because he had taken excess an amount of marijuana and deemed not responsible for breaking into Halimi’s apartment, stabbing her and throwing her out of her apartment window to her death. Read more at JNS