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,”
