65-year-old Sarah Halimi was murdered in her Paris apartment in 2017. She was beaten and then pushed out of the window of her apartment by her Muslim neighbor Kobili Traore, 27, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest” in Arabic).

Last April, the French Supreme Court  upheld a ruling by a lower court that Traore could not stand trial because he had used drugs to be criminally responsible for his actions. A ruling that was denounced by the Jewish community.

The sister of a murdered Jewish woman has filed a criminal complaint in Israel against the killer after he avoided a trial in France on the grounds that he was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime.

65-year-old Sarah Halimi was murdered in her Paris apartment in 2017. She was beaten and then pushed out of the window of her apartment by her Muslim neighbor Kobili Traore, 27, who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest” in Arabic).

Last April, the French Supreme Court  upheld a ruling by a lower court that Traore could not stand trial because he had used drugs to be criminally responsible for his actions. A ruling that was denounced by the Jewish community.

Lawyers for Esther Lekover, Sarah Halimi’s sister, Francis Szpiner and Gilles-William Goldnadel said that they were now taking the legal battle against Traore to Israeli courts.

The move appears to be the first time someone has utilized a law allowing Israeli citizens – Esther Lekover is Israeli – to file complaints in Israel about antisemitic crimes committed abroad.

However, the Israeli media said the move is largely symbolic since as a rule, France does not extradite its citizens to other countries.