[ April 23, 2024 ]
On Islam, President Emmanuel Macron is not coherent. He has spoken with fervor about creating a “French Islam,” but has not explained what that means, other than that imams would receive their religious training in France. He has since gone silent on that plan; after such a buildup; no one yet knows what Macron thinks a “French Islam” would look like, and how it would differ from mainstream Islam as practiced in the Middle East and North Africa. After all, Believers inside France would read the same Qur’an and the same Hadith as Believers outside. Or does Macron think he can produce bowdlerized “editions” of both suitable for use in France, that Muslims would accept?
The French President has sounded much more sensible in his recent remarks about the trial of Kobili Traore, the man who killed Sara Halimi, a 65-year-old lady murdered for being Jewish. Traore was excused by the prosecutors from a criminal trial because he had been high on cannabis at the time of the murder.
Here are the details of Macron’s clashes on that decision with some senior French judges:
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French President Emmanuel Macron was locked in a dispute with senior representatives of his country’s judiciary on Monday, after earlier expressing support for putting the alleged antisemitic murderer of a Jewish woman on trial.
In a speech to French Jews in Jerusalem last Thursday, Macron addressed the widely-condemned Dec. 2019 decision by prosecutors in Paris to excuse the accused killer, 29-year-old Kobili Traore, from a criminal trial.
The prosecutors deemed that Traore’s intake of cannabis on the night that he tortured and murdered Sarah Halimi — his 65-year-old Jewish neighbor — had rendered him delusional and therefore criminally not responsible for his actions.
In his remarks in Israel, Macron appeared to disagree with that ruling.
“Even if, in the end, the judge had to decide that criminal responsibility is not there, the need for a trial is there,” the French president said.
That assertion resulted in a stern reminder for Macron of the independent status of the French system of justice from two of its leading representatives.
In a written statement on Monday, Chantal Arens and François Molins — respectively the first president and the attorney general of the Cassation Court, France’s highest — emphasized that “the independence of the judiciary is an essential condition for the functioning of democracy.”
Continued the statement: “The magistrates of the Court of Cassation must be able to examine with complete peace of mind and in complete independence the appeals before them.”
The Court of Cassation is presently considering whether to overrule the Paris prosecutors by sending Traore for trial. Their deliberations will likely be the final step in a legal process that has dragged on for nearly three years, causing heartache to the Halimi family and rising anger among French Jews.
And not just French Jews – many non-Jews have also been angered by this decision.
In his Jerusalem speech, however, Macron suggested that his personal feelings about the Halimi case sat uneasily with the official requirements of his post.
“I cannot speak to you from the heart, because I am the guarantor of the independence of the judiciary, of the cardinal principles of our Criminal Code,” Macron noted.
The judiciary’s independence is not infringed upon by Macron stating his personal opinion as to the wisdom of the prosecutors’ decision in the Halimi case. Macron retains the right to state his own view on the. wisdom, or unwisdom, of judges’ decisions. He has no means of influencing the judges on the Court of Cassation who may agree, or refuse, to hear the case on appeal. He has no power, as president, to pressure them, any more than an American president can pressure judges on the Supreme Court to vote the way he would wish.
In the wake of Halimi’s murder — which occurred two months before Macron’s election — he said, “I received so many letters, heard so much excitement, saw so much rage and anger at the idea that justice will never be done.”
Macron then noted an appeal had already been lodged by Halimi’s lawyers with the Court of Cassation, observing that “this constitutes a possible way forward under the law.”
Traore — who lived in the same public housing project in eastern Paris as Halimi, a child development expert who lived alone — broke into her apartment during the early morning hours of April 4, 2017.
Terrified neighbors who alerted police after hearing Halimi’s cries for help reported that Traore had shouted Islamist slogans as he rained kicks and punches on his victim, before picking up her bruised body and throwing her out of the window.
Police investigations later revealed that Halimi had told relatives that she was scared of Traore, who insulted her visiting daughter as a “dirty Jewess” a few weeks before the murder.
The country’s chief rabbi, Haim Korsia, was among those who condemned the decision to excuse Traore from trial because of his drug use, calling it a “license to kill Jews” in France.
The decision of the prosecutors in the Halimi case was atrocious. It was based on the argument that since Kobili Traore was under the influence of cannabis when he murdered Halimi, he was, not in his right mind and could not be held criminally responsible for his act. But his own history showed that when he beat and then defenestrated Halimi, his thoughts were very much of a piece with his beliefs when he was not taking cannabis. He had a history of ranting about Jews; when Halimi’s daughter had visited her just a few weeks before the murder, Traore called her “une sale juive,” a “dirty Jewess.” Traore was in his right mind – that is, his evil, antisemitic, murderous right mind – when he decided to kill Sara Halimi. He was doing as the Qur’an instructs Muslims to do – to fight, to kill, to smite at the necks of, to strike terror in the hearts of, non-Muslims, the “most vile of created beings.” He knew, too, the several dozen antisemitic verses in the Qur’an. While beating Halimi, he repeated Islamic slogans – quotes, no doubt, from some of the more than 100 Jihad verses in the Qur’an.
Why should the taking of cannabis be considered a mitigating factor? That would be true only if Traore had never exhibited a murderous hatred of Jews, but then, while under the influence of cannabis, had attacked and killed Sara Halimi, toward whom he had never expressed any hatred, could one argue that he was “not in his right mind.” But in the trial it had been well-established that Traore hated Jews, insulted Jews, ranted against Jews. The cannabis was not the cause of his murderous behavior; it may have given him Dutch courage to do what he so obviously wanted to do. His intent was clear, and this hatred of Jews had been clear for months, if not years.
If the judgment of the prosecutors in the Halimi case were to stand, it would set a terrible precedent in French law. If on appeal Traore is excused from any criminal prosecution by the Court of Cassation, how many Muslims will simply get high on drugs before committing whatever crime they have in mind against Infidels? As Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia, who was among those who condemned the decision to excuse Traore from trial because of his drug use, said, the decision was a “license to kill Jews” in France. And not just Jews.
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31 Comments
4 years ago
So, is the froggy judicial system telling me …. If I want to go on a moslem extermination run …. I should simply roll up a blunt ‘r two … and have at those foul creatures?
Corona virus be dayummed. When’s the next flight out?
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Are you a Muslim?
No excuses for YOU.
You can’t get away with harassment and murder because you are not a Muslim!
France has its two tiered justice system too.
4 years ago
The guy doesn’t know what he’s babbling about. And then always that straddled pose. He really suffers from inferiority complexes, which manifest themselves in ridiculous peacockiness. Does he crush his surrogate mommy’s hand like a vice when she strokes his head every morning?
A deeply disgusting figure with postpubescent features. Lifting such a clown into the top position of a nation rich in tradition is no less disgraceful than Merkel’s broad buttocks, shaken by epileptic fits of trembling, on the unrolled carpet of the alleged world elite.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
One well-aimed push, and the fart lands backwards on his narrow butt, with which he supposedly “satisfies” his aged wife. Smooth linnet. He does not suffer from reality blindness, but pure malice. He wants to fill his stomach at the expense of all those French women whom he expects to be even more African “enrichment”.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Put him and Trudeau in a sack. Would you
beat it, you would never hit the wrong one.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Are you high on cannabis, marc ?? Maybe then I may possibly forgive you for your lunacy.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. You are STILL a lunatic, marc…….
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Are you high on cannabis, marc ?? Maybe then I may possibly forgive you for your lunacy.
NAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. You are STILL a lunatic, marc…….
4 years ago
Muslim street criminals are generally stoned on something or another.
4 years ago
4 years ago
MAcron wants to empower the RIF Republique Islamique Française – French Islamic Republic so there is no more islamic separatism. The first topic on his agenda is to veil his wife Brigitte. She will be so happy.
Macron will become the new Mohammad. Before rising to power, Mohammad married an elderly wealthy woman who helped him climb the ladder.
Macron = Mohammad 2.0
like his party LaREM = Socialist Party 2.0
same laxism, same crazy spending, same submission to the EU Caliphate, same demagogic principles.
Macron is the new Mohammad.
Let’s hope a DJT landslide in 2020 so he can invade France again like in 1944 to free the world.
But First, we need to cancel the 5th column in the USA, namely the Caliphate Socialist Party also named Democrat Party
4 years ago
His shoes are bigger than he is, probably three sizes too big, procured by his granny-wife to let him take up more space.
4 years ago
Mrs. Macron said in public that her little man is at least very “practical” when she has forgotten the key to the common villa. Then she pushes him under the door with her spiked heel so that he can open it from the inside.
She has even been able to push him through the narrow crack of a tilted toilet window. She would even make any bet that you could crawl piggyback through a straw with him.
Only when vacuuming, she is always panic-stricken that she could pull him into the vacuum cleaner bag with the strong suction current and not find him again afterwards.
Even daily life for privileged grannies is not always easy at the side of a pubescent Lilliputian!
4 years ago
It is well past time to start the wall on the northern border for sure!!!!!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
patd
That will be the next battle. Also we are more relaxed with Canadian VISAS. That may have to be tightened up too as more Muslims live there.
4 years ago
Macron is not an anomaly in the Western political milieu. Indeed, Macron, as are his counterparts, is submissive to the rise and the ultimate capitulation to Islam. France, no unlike, all EU states are awash with Islamic apologists within the governments, the judiciary, and other agencies. The Halimi case is indicative of not merely the absurdity, but the anti-Semitic biases inflicting not only France but the entirety of the faux–Democratic West.
This poor woman was subject to heinous verbal and physical threats before her murder by the hands of Traore. Imagine if it were the reverse, a Jew threatening, then killing a Muslim, the Islamophobia card would quickly rise, and the Jew would face prosecution for hate-speech, murder with exceptional circumstances, Islamophobia. In the West, when there is a need for a scapegoat, one does not need to look far; a Jew will suffice.
Macron and his sycophantic acolytes are Islamic apologists to their fetid, anti-Semitic core. The injustice following the slaughter of Sara Halimi by this heinous piece of filth is symptomatic of not only France’s submissiveness to Islam but that of the entire West. Indeed, France, or the EU, is deeply-set in anti-Semitism, unbridled Jew-hatred, and the loathing of its Western culture. No Western nation, however, is devoid of the rise of Jew-hatred or accepting it as the norm.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Macron is young Bernie. Macron is plain socialist. Macron mother is Jewish. This explains why he was working at Rothschild finances.
French media prefers to keep the information in the closet (like the others pieces stating he is gay and 100% passive, also Brigitte is his Dominatrix for BDSM)
4 years ago
Traore was excused by the prosecutors from a criminal trial because he had been high on cannabis at the time of the murder.
If marijana is so wonderful why are the French relaxing on the illegality of it?
Since when does marijuana make one violent?
Is being high on it now an excuse to be a brutal savage?
Is the west working up to the point of having an excuse for any crime and not issuing proper punishment as a deterrent, of course based on identity politics?
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Traore by his origins is indeed a cannibal. Afaik marijuana makes food craving. He was looking for fresh food. Apparently the food was not fresh enough for him.
4 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
But, but all cultures are equal!
We call evil good and good evil…
At some point we maybe normalizing this too –
4 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
But, but all cultures are equal!
We call evil good and good evil…
At some point we maybe normalizing this too –
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
It’s merely a reflection of the rotten, immoral degeneracy of the atheist West. This never would’ve happened even thirty years ago.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If he was drunk on alcohol, would he have the same verdict? The pot culture seems to be willing to look the other way when someone commits a crime while high on weed.
4 years ago
Islam has no “friends”, only victims, including it’s practitioners.
4 years ago
Reply to
xorbe07
You’re morally depraved.
Would you call nazis victims of nazism?
I’ll tell you what you go to Nigeria and tell the families of the 50,000 Nigerian Christians slaughtered by f’ing muslums this century that muslums are victims THEN go to Mauritania, the Sudan and Niger and tell the millions of kafir being enslaved by muslums in those countries that muslums are victims.
Here’s a hint for you, you can’t play the part of the conqueror and the victim.
4 years ago
Islam has no “friends”, only victims, including it’s practitioners.
4 years ago
The French establishment is totally helpless to manage the stress in their society under siege yellow jackets, the Muslims, their people. They are weak, indecisive,and as confused as Joe Biden. They are failures and losers. Reminds me of the Blum government in 1940 that could not oppose the Nazi invasion and ran off rather than fight. Hopefully,there is some French Colonel who will march into the Elysee and tell Macron and his band of fools to retire and let him straighten things out. I think that is the only solution.
4 years ago
The Guillotines are waiting to get reactivated – exclusively 
for the French establishment …
