"...How can a democratic society accept that a perfectly rational perpetrator of an antisemitic crime can escape responsibility simply by claiming he used drugs?
How is cannabis an excusing factor for antisemitic murder, when it is only an aggravating factor for all other crimes?
If the killer's mental state at the time of the crime exacerbated his antisemitism - as all reports seem to indicate - why refuse to see that there was antisemitism indeed prior to the use of drugs?
By saying that Sarah Halimi's willful, hate-filled murderer is not responsible for his crimes, the Cour de Cassation has definitively deprived Sarah's family of a trial essential to their mourning, but also the People of France of a necessary trial of antisemitism.
To put it simply, murdering Jews is no longer a criminal act in France if the killer can make a certain case to the court system. ..."