The murder of a 65-year-old Jewish woman in Paris last year was an antisemitic attack, a judge has ruled, overturning an earlier refusal by French authorities to treat it as a hate crime.
Kobili Traore, 28, is accused of murdering his Orthodox Jewish neighbour Lucette Attal-Halimi, known by her Hebrew name Sarah Halimi.
It is alleged he broke into her council flat in eastern Paris on the night of April 3 2017.
Authorities initially refused to classify the attack which led to her death as religiously motivated, provoking outrage from Jewish groups and a legal challenge from the victim’s family.
