The president of the CRIF umbrella organisation of French Jews Francis Kalifat said he was not prepared to let go in fighting for justice in the suspected antisemitic murder of Sarah Halimi.
In an article in Le Figaro on Monday, Kalifat placed the brutal murder of Halimi, who was tortured and thrown out of a window in Paris on April 4, within a context similar to that of the years at the beginning of the millennium when antisemitic attacks were often ignored by the media.
“From ordinary delinquents to lone wolves or the psychiatrically ill, everything has been attempted in order not to recognise once again that in France Jews are attacked and even killed uniquely because they are Jews,” Kalifat wrote.
“Our society has difficulty in confronting this new reality and to recognise the evidence and to name the evil when the victim is Jewish,” he added.
“Tortured to the rhythm of Koranic surats, Sarah Attal-Halimi was thrown out of the balcony window of her own apartment alive to the cries of Allah u Akhbar by a 27-year old French man, originally from Mali. A multiple offender and delinquent, recently radicalised probably during a spell in prison and attending a Salafist mosque,” Kalifat wrote.
The case is continuing.
