French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a change in the law after the killer of a Jewish woman in Paris escaped justice because he was under the influence of drugs. 

Kobili Traore pushed 65-year-old Sarah Halimi out of the window of her flat in 2017, crying “Allahu Akbar”. 

Last week France’s highest court upheld a previous ruling that Traore had experienced a “delirious fit” after smoking marijuana and could not be held criminally responsible for his actions. 

Mr Macron told the French newspaper Le Figaro, “Deciding to take narcotics and then ‘going mad’ should, not in my view, remove your criminal responsibility,” 

He said he would like Justice Minister Eric Dupod-Moretti to “present a change in the law as soon as possible”, he added. 

Traore has been in psychiatric care since the killing. 

The decision not to try him has caused anger and shock among French Jewry with the country’s chief rabbi Haim Korsia saying he was “scandalised”.