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The government would have had plenty of time to change the law if it wanted to. And there is no doubt that, if this had been the case, the Court of Cassation would have been obliged to take it into account in its way of judging, even if the criminal law is not retroactive. We would have avoided such a situation.
Nathalie Goulet, a centrist senator from Orne, is windy. For more than a year, she has been fighting to review the issue of criminal irresponsibility, so that the latter does not become "a license to kill", as the defenders of Sarah Halimi, who demonstrated on Sunday, claim. number, against the decision of the Court of Cassation confirming the irresponsibility of Kobili Traoré, a cannabis smoker suffering from a "delirious puff" when he killed Sarah Halimi, in 2017.
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As early as January 2020, the senator had tabled a bill in the High Assembly to reform this principle.
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