Nine months after the murder of Sarah Halimi, a French judge on Monday rejected a demand from a civil party to the case that the motive for the crime be termed antisemitic.
A lawyer for Halimi’s children had already made a similar demand after Sarah Halimi was thrown from a window of her apartment and murdered in April 2017.
“This is an insult to the memory of Sarah Halimi and an additional sadness for her children and family, » Francis Kalifat, president of the CRIF organisation of French Jews – the country’s EJC affiliate – said on Twitter.
On the night of April 3, 2017 in central Paris, a young Muslim man broke into Halimi’s apartment, shouted “Allah Akbar” alongside verses from the Koran, attacked Halimi and threw her to her death from her apartment balcony.
