Orthodox Jewish woman's murder stirs up anti-Semitism debate in France


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The brutal murder of an orthodox Jewish woman in France has been declared an anti-Semitic act, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday, after a campaign to draw attention to the crime.


When Sarah Halimi, 65, died last April in Paris, her family and Jewish groups blamed anti-Semitism.


Kobili Traore, 27, who was arrested the day after the killing, went before the instructing magistrate on Tuesday who finally added anti-Semitism to the charges, the source said.


Traore was Ms Halimi’s neighbour and allegedly broke into her apartment in a public housing development in eastern Paris on the night of April 3.


A Christian worshipper holds a cross at the church of the nativity ahead of the arrival of Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III in the West Bank.

Amid shouts of “Allah Akbar” (God is great), Koranic verses and insults, he beat Ms Halimi before throwing her out of the window.


“I’ve killed the demon,” he allegedly shouted in Arabic.


The murder stirred debate over anti-Semitism and violence in working-class districts of France.


Despite having taken a large amount of cannabis before the killing, psychiatric testing found he was still responsible for his actions which were “not incompatible with an anti-Semitic dimension”.


The prosecutor then called for anti-Semitism to be added to the charges as Jewish groups had demanded.


Last month they started legal action demanding a response from the instructing magistrate on whether Ms Halimi was targeted because of her religion.


The affair took a political turn last July when President Emmanuel Macron called for the full facts to be known during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


France’s half-a-million-plus Jewish community has voiced increasing concern with a rise in anti-Semitic acts that have seen thousands of Jews leave for Israel.

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