Posts Tagged: Sarah Halimi
French Senator Takes Aim at Legal Protection for ‘Murderous Predators’ as Anger Over Sarah Halimi Trial Decision Persists
A prominent French senator announced her intention this week to fundamentally revise her country's laws on criminal responsibility, following last month's decision by prosecutors in...
French Jews Express ‘Dismay’ and ‘Indignation’ as Accused Antisemitic Killer of Sarah Halimi Evades Criminal Trial
The murderer of an elderly Jewish woman in her Paris apartment in April 2017 was excused a criminal trial by French prosecutors on Thursday, on...
Despite Killer’s Admission of Guilt, Criminal Trial for Antisemitic Murder of French Jewish Woman Remains in Doubt
Grave doubts over whether the individual accused of the antisemitic murder of a Jewish widow in Paris in 2017 will ever face a criminal trial...
France’s Outrageous Handling of Sarah Halimi’s Murder
A brief reminder if there was still any need: on the night of April 3, 2017, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, was surprised in...
Ignoring, Excusing, Enabling: Sorbonne Scholar Probes French Media’s Attitude on Rising Antisemitism
In the week that has passed since the judicial announcement that the murderer of Sarah Halimi -- the 65-year-old Jewish woman beaten to death in...
Elderly Woman Suffers Serious Head Injury From Metal Object Thrown at Her Outside Synagogue in Paris
A 79-year-old woman was seriously injured on Tuesday when she was hit in the head by a metal object thrown at her as she exited...
Sarah Halimi’s Antisemitic Murderer Disappears Behind a Smokescreen
JNS.org - During the prosecution of Jared Lee Loughner -- the shooter sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 2011 murder of six people and...
‘We Won’t Be Collateral Victims,’ Jewish Leader Tells French President Macron During Special Service at Paris Synagogue
French President Emmanuel Macron was warmly greeted by more than one thousand worshippers at the Great Synagogue in Paris on Tuesday night, as he arrived...
Antisemitism in France Has Moved ‘From Streets Into Homes,’ Says Head of French Jewish Community
Antisemitism in France has moved "from the streets directly into the homes of Jewish people," the head of the country's 465,000-strong Jewish community told The...
Son of Murdered French Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Expresses Fear Over Jewish Future in Europe
The son of Mireille Knoll -- the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in a horrific stabbing attack at her Paris apartment on March 23 -- has spoken...
French Jews Furious as New Obstacle Emerges to Future Trial of Jewish Pensioner’s Antisemitic Killer
France's Jewish community has reacted with fury to a panel of psychiatric experts' determination that the young man charged with the brutal murder of a...
15 Years After Brutal Murder of Jewish DJ in Paris, French President Macron Recognizes It as Antisemitic Crime
Fifteen years after France's Jewish community was shell-shocked by the murder of a young Jewish musician whose killer proudly told relatives, "I killed a Jew!...
‘Indignant’ French Imams Issue Harsh Condemnation of Muslim Antisemitism, Terrorism
Thirty prominent French imams issued a strongly-worded condemnation of antisemitism and Islamist terrorism on Tuesday, stressing that the alternative of remaining silent "would make us complicit and therefore...
French Jewish Representatives Demand ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Antisemitism, as Attacks Multiply During January
The representative body of Jews in France has called on the government to take "all necessary measures" to deter further antisemitic attacks, following a spate of...
