Macron calls for legal change as killer of Jewish woman avoids trial

Macron calls for legal change as killer of Jewish woman avoids trial
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A demonstration in the wake of the murder of Sarah Halimi. © franceinfo
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President Emmanuel Macron has urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided trial on the grounds that he acted in delirium due to drug-taking.
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Jewish groups have reacted with outrage to last week's decision by France's highest court that Kobili Traore was not criminally responsible for the murder in 2017 of Sarah Halimi.
Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by 27-year-old neighbour Traore.

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