TIMES OF ISRAEL
Suspect in 2017 Paris killing of Jewish woman won’t stand trial
by Agencies and Staff
December 19, 2019

A man accused of murdering his Jewish neighbor in Paris will not stand trial after a French court ruled Thursday he could not be held responsible for the killing because he was in a psychotic state from smoking marijuana. Kobili Traore is alleged to have beaten his neighbor, 66-year-old Sarah Halimi, to death in 2017 while calling her a demon and shouting about Allah, before throwing her body from the window of her third-story apartment. The appeals court, whose decision Thursday ended Traore’s detention, ordered he be hospitalized or made to attend a drug rehabilitation program. READ MORE