A demining truck and many gendarmes were deployed on Sunday in front of the Trocadero square.
"We expect 20,000 to 30,000 people"
, explains a gendarme who, behind the barriers, checks bags and jackets.
As of 1:30 p.m., thousands of people flocked to the rally for Sarah Halimi.
Under the slogan
"Without justice, no Republic"
, citizens' collectives and representatives of the Jewish community called for "gatherings of anger" in Paris and other cities in France to challenge the lack of trial after the murder of the 60-year-old in 2017.
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On April 14, the Court of Cassation confirmed the anti-Semitic nature of the murder of Sarah Halimi but confirmed the impossibility of trying the murderer, given the abolition of his discernment at the time of the facts.
According to the seven psychiatric experts who examined him, Kobili Traore, a heavy user of cannabis, was in the throes of a
"delirious puff
" at the time of the facts.
The Muslim man had beaten his neighbor, calling her a
"sheitan"
("devil" in Arabic) and shouting
"Allah akbar"
, before defending her from the third floor.
"Right to a trial"
"This decision is unjustifiable
," explains Emilie, 19, of Jewish faith, calmly, who came from Asnières with her mother.
I am here because I do not agree with French justice. The notion of “discernment” should be updated. I hope that there will not be only Jews today ”
, adds the young girl on a place of the Trocadéro where it is difficult to clear your way. Flags of the Jewish Defense League (LDJ) fly. On the signs stamped Crif or Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), the words
"justice smashed"
,
"who smokes a joint can smoke a citizen"
, or
"the next Sarah will be Christian, Muslim or atheist"
.
On a screen, politicians, personalities like the director Alexandre Arcady, the animators Arthur and Cyril Hanouna, the actors Yvan Attal and Pascal Légitimus, the chief rabbi of France.
“The victim, the family and the society have the right to a trial,” he
explains.
The interview with Gabriel Attal, in which the government spokesman affirms that
"drugs cannot be a license to kill"
is welcomed.
The impossibility of a trial has also stirred at the top of the state.
"Deciding to take narcotics and then become 'like crazy' should not in my eyes remove your criminal responsibility", had assailed Emmanuel Macron on April 18 in Le Figaro
“French justice, the sixth pillar of Islamism?
Mitchallée, 57, wrote this question on his pink banner. Alongside Sarah Halimi's name, she wrote
"Viry-Châtillon"
,
"Rambouillet"
and
"StopJihad"
. This intermittent show, who campaigned for years at Ammesty international, wants
"a law against the textile straitjacket that violates the rights of women
.
"
“All my life I have voted on the left. But never again
, she gets carried away.
I am here to defend my Jewish friends. Sarah Halimi is the symptom of a sick society, ”she
believes. "
Your banner is nonsense,"
Fernand calls out.
Are you anti-Arab?
Racist?
It makes me ashamed
", loose the old man, who calls himself
" a Zionist and atheist Jew "
.
At 82, he could "
not be elsewhere
".
"I would protest if any murderer who smoked hash was declared irresponsible."
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The impossibility of a trial has also stirred at the top of the state.
"Deciding to take narcotics and then become 'like crazy' should not in my eyes remove your criminal responsibility,"
Emmanuel Macron said on April 18 in
Le Figaro
. The president said
"to hope that the Minister of Justice presents a change in the law as soon as possible"
. The person concerned, Eric Dupond-Moretti, announced on Sunday the presentation, at the end of May, of a bill aimed at filling a
"legal vacuum"
in matters of criminal irresponsibility.
“France never (ra) judges fools. However, the consequences must be drawn from the decision of the Court of Cassation which notes the absence of the possibility offered by current law to take into account the voluntary intake of toxic substances by an individual leading to the abolition of his discernment
”, explained the minister who, in February, had received a report on the subject. A point of view that does not share a heavyweight of the majority. Asked Sunday on BFMTV, François Bayrou estimated that
"what is shocking on this subject is not that someone is declared irresponsible because he is unbalanced, crazy as they say, is that this is done without trial because it is a lack of attention, of respect, for the victims
”.
