French-Jewish judge resigns to protest high court ruling in Sarah Halimi's murder
By Cnaan Lipshsiz
The Ttimes of Israel
April 28, 2021
Outraged by a high court’s ruling in the Sarah Halimi affair, a French-Jewish judge has quit his post.
“I decided to resign over the ruling, which at first I couldn’t believe,” Jack Broda of the Tribunal of Commerce of Nancy, in eastern France, told Le Figaro. “My resignation was accepted and regretted.”
On April 14, France’s highest court determined that Kobili Traore, a 31-year-old Muslim man, was not criminally liable for his actions on April 7, 2017, when he killed his neighbor Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish kindergarten teacher and physician.
Kobili Traore
The court affirmed rulings by lower tribunals that Traore was not criminally liable for killing Halimi because he was having a psychotic episode induced by his consumption of a large amount of marijuana shortly before the killing.
Sarah Halimi
Traore broke into Halimi’s apartment and pummeled her for about 30 minutes. The devout Muslim shouted about Allah and cried out “I’ve killed the demon of the neighborhood,” witnesses said.
Then he threw Halimi’s body out the window of her third-story apartment and shouted “A lady has fallen down!” before leaving the premises, witnesses also said.
The Paris Appeals Court had determined that Traore acted out of antisemitism.
On Sunday, more than 20,000 protesters, many of them Jews, demonstrated in Paris against the ruling and demanded a trial for Traore, who is at a psychiatric hospital.
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Smoking cannabis DOES make people more violent: Project confirms for the first time that using the drug is the cause of crimes
By Steve Doughty
Dalgarno Institute
October 5, 2017
Cannabis users are more likely to commit violent crime, pioneering research has shown.
It warned those who smoke the drug regularly run an increased risk of using violence against others.
The project is the first to demonstrate that cannabis is not only linked with violent crime but is the cause.
Violent incidents monitored by the study based on the lives of more than 1,100 American psychiatric patients included assaults, attacks with weapons and rapes.
Researchers said that cannabis causes violence and they found no evidence that the link is the other way round – i.e. that violent people are more likely to use cannabis.
There was no support, they added, for theories put forward by campaigners anxious to free the drug from the taint of links with crime. The academics said the effect of cannabis use was clear and not diminished by other factors such as patients who were heavy drinkers of alcohol.
The study comes after a series of American states have decriminalised cannabis – despite it being stronger and more potent than the hash smoked by hippies in the Sixties – or made it available for medical use.
2 comments:
So, smoking pot makes you anti-Semitic. Makes as much sense as other things French.
I was introduced to a SF soldier who had worked with my son on assignments. We were at a Bar B Q. He had a snoot full when he told me he previously served a couple of years with the French Foreign Legion. I asked him about the FFL's reputation as being feared warriors. He said the FFL were really cruel state sanctioned mercenaries with their ranks filled with criminals and sociopaths.
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