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# It’s OK to Commit a ‘Hate Crime’ if You Smoke Pot
- URL: https://goodoil.news/its-ok-to-commit-a-hate-crime-if-you-smoke-pot/
- Published: 2020-01-02T22:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-03T01:50:40.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Crime, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

Consider this tale yet another reason why legalising cannabis for recreational use is a bad idea. Believe it or not, a court in France has accepted using cannabis as a defence for a brutal hate crime finding a Muslim man who murdered a Jewish woman while yelling ” Allahu akbar” not responsible for his actions because he smoked pot.

> A Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor in Paris while shouting about Allah is **probably not criminally responsible** for his actions because he had smoked marijuana beforehand, a French judge has ruled.

> The preliminary ruling in the trial of Kobili Traore for the 2017 murder of Sarah Halimi came Friday from a judge of inquiry — a magistrate that in the French justice system is tasked with deciding whether indicted defendants should in fact stand trial, *JTA* reported Monday.

> Halimi was murdered in 2017 after she was [attacked by her Muslim neighbor](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/228840?ref=goodoil.news) while she was sleeping in her apartment. He stabbed her, yelled “Allahu Akbar,” and then threw her from the third story to her death.

> Traore confessed to the killing but [a subsequent psychiatric evaluation](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248791?ref=goodoil.news) determined that he was not responsible for his actions.

> \[…\] Khalifat’s op-ed published Monday on the CRIF website follows a series of protests over perceived delays in Traore’s trial and the efforts, including by judges, that CRIF and others have condemned as attempts to prevent a murder trial.

> An aggravated element of a hate crime [was added to Traore’s indictment](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/242511?ref=goodoil.news) following vocal protests by CRIF, which said that the omission of such charges may have part of a “cover up” by French authorities.

> Witnesses said Traore called Halimi a “demon” as he was pummeling her. Halimi’s daughter said following the murder that Traore called her, the daughter, a “dirty Jewess” two years before the killing when they passed each other in the building.

> Sammy Ghozlan, a former police commissioner and founder of France’s Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, told *JTA* in May that the handling of the Halimi case has made him “**no longer have full confidence that anti-Semitic hate crimes in France are handled properly.”**…  
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> [Arutz Sheva](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266023?ref=goodoil.news)

No kidding, really?

Will decisions like this one lead in the long run to a peaceful and harmonious multicultural society? What do you think?