France

In Paris, some 20,000 demonstrate against court decision that Jewish woman’s killer was too stoned to be held criminally responsible

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared, "We must fight antisemitism because it is a plague that undermines the foundations of our republic and our democracy."

President of Crif, Chief Rabbi of France, presidents of the Consistory and the FSJU call for a massive participation in the popular rally which will take place on Sunday, April 25 at 2 p.m. on the Human Rights Square, place du Trocadéro, following the decision of the Court of Cassation concerning the murder of Sarah Halimi.

To deliver Justice, the magistrates of the Cour de Cassation lacked courage and showed cowardice. Rather than take the courageous responsibility of a landmark decision, as she has the opportunity, she passed that task to the legislators," writes CRIF President Francis Kalifat in an op-ed on the Sarah Halimi judgment.

Two of the world’s most famous Nazi hunters, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, are getting the documentary treatment.

Following the ruling on the Sarah Halimi case, President Emanuel Macron expressed support for the French Jewish community and said he would seek a change to laws to prevent such a case from happening again.