Interview with Yonathan Arif, VP of CRIF, the umbrella group of France's
74 Jewish Organizations, to discuss the French judicial system, which
recently ruled that Kobil Treore, a 27 year-old Muslim man, could not be
tried for the brutal murder of Sarah Halimi, a 65 year-old Jewish
woman, because he was 'high' on marijuana at the time of the savage
attack, and could not be held criminally responsible. Yonathan educated
us about the current level of antisemitism in France, and that many of
their compatriots have joined with the proud Jewish community to condemn
and combat anti-Semitism. French President Macron has pushed for a new
law that would never again allow the courts to avoid prosecution for
criminals of such heinous crimes while under 'the influence' of drugs