Quote (duffman316 @ 27 Apr 2021 03:36)
france needs to get its shit together
Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris apartment by her neighbour, Kobili Traoré, who allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic). Traoré admitted pushing her.
The ruling from the Court of Cassation, issued this month, said there was enough evidence to show the act had anti-Semitic motives.
But the court said a person who committed a crime while in a “delirious state” cannot be sent to trial – even if that state was caused by the habitual use of illegal drugs. Traoré used to smoke heavy quantities of cannabis.
i mean, i agree it's really difficult to accept how such a clear case of an anti-semitic hate crime might not see a trial, and i imagine it's particularly outrageous if you only read the headlines and assumed the scumbag just walked (which ofc is not the case, he's locked up in a psych ward) - but it is my understanding that the ruling(s) were made according to current french law.
so i assume by "getting their shit together" you mean france should change their laws? what would you suggest? do away with the exception from criminal responsibility for people not in control of their actions due to their mental state? do that for cases where it's drug-induced (that's what macron for example suggested afaik), maybe only for recreational / criminal drug use, not prescribed drugs?
anyway, ex post facto laws are basically impossible to introduce in french criminal law (as in most modern democracies), so even that change would not give her family the justice i think we all feel they're being denied here. it's a really tragic case, but the responses to it are riddled with ignorance concerning the legal issues and driven by (understandable but not exactly helpful) emotion.
This post was edited by fender on Apr 27 2021 05:50pm