(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 25 - Following the verdict of the French Court of Cassation which confirmed the non-punishment of Kobili Traore for the murder of Sarah Halimi, which took place in 2017 in Paris, hundreds of Israelis gathered to protect today in Tel Aviv at the French embassy.
Similar events also took place in Rome, London and New York, as well as in France.
It was "a world contest of protest", stressed the Jewish community of Rome, which in the capital protested with a sit-in near the French Embassy. "On April 4, 2017 - the Roman Jewish community recalls in a note - Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew, mother of three children and a retired doctor, was severely beaten in her apartment for a long time, then thrown from the window and killed by her neighbor who had entered her home, Kobili Traoré, who after the murder screamed 'Allah u akbar' and claimed the murder. A murder with a clear anti-Semitic nature - underlines the Jewish community - for which, according to the French Court of Cassation, themurderer would be exonerated from the fact that he was addicted to marijuana to the point of not being criminally responsible for his actions ". (ANSA).