Halimi’s 2017 murder reignited the debate over anti-Semitism in working-class districts in France

The man who killed Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian, in 2017 was declared criminally inculpable Thursday by the Court of Appeal of Paris, a decision ruling out the possibility of trying him for the act as demanded by the victim’s relatives.

After weighing contradictory psychiatric assessments of Kobili Traore, who was 27 at the time of the killing, the jury ruled that the one-time drug dealer was not criminally responsible for his action, as his judgment was impaired by heavy consumption of cannabis that appeared to aggravate an existing mental condition.

Traore threw Halimi out the window of her Paris flat while shouting “Allahu Akhbar,” meaning “God is greatest” in Arabic. Last year a judge confirmed the incident represented an anti-Semitically motivated hate crime….