Two years later, the unspeakable was compounded by the un-understandable: a French cour d’appel, or appeals court, ruled that the accused, who claimed to have been in the throes of a cannabis-induced psychotic episode at the time was “criminally irresponsible” and consigned him to a psychiatric hospital. In a dismal marking of the fourth anniversary of Sarah Halimi’s death earlier this month, France’s final appeals court, the cour de cassation, reaffirmed the lower court ruling.
This series of unfortunate events is as familiar as the series of righteous protests that has accompanied them. In France, pundits across the political spectrum have denounced the rulings. In his column at the conservative
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