The man who killed Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian, in 2017 was declared criminally irresponsible Thursday by the Court of Appeal of Paris, a decision that rules out the possibility of trying him for the act, as demanded by the victim's relatives.
Suspect Kobili Traoré, who is Muslim, broke into Halimi's home and shouted "God is great" and "Satan" in Arabic, crushed her skull and then threw her out the window of her third-story apartment.
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After weighing contradictory psychiatric assessments of Traoré, who was 27 at the time of the killing, the jury ruled that the one-time drug dealer was not criminally responsible for his action, as his judgment was impaired by heavy consumption of cannabis that appeared to aggravate an existing mental condition.
After his first psychiatric evaluation, mental health experts told the court that he could stand trial and investigators said his slurs at Halimi showed an "anti-Semitic motive." But a second evaluation in 2018 deemed Traoré not responsible for his actions.
Part of this article was originally published by i24NEWS.
