What Iran Learned from North Korea about Nuclear Weapons
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September 7, 2017
Why did the police stand haplessly outside of Sarah Halimi’s apartment?
In July, the French president Emmanuel Macron declared that “the judiciary must shed full light” on the murder of a Parisian Jew named Sarah Halimi, who was brutalized and killed by a Muslim neighbor on April 4 while he recited verses of the Quran and called her “Satan.” Macron’s comment, writes Michel Gurfinkiel, was a refreshing change after seemingly systematic attempts by France’s government and press to downplay the crime—attempts that still continue. The story begins with the police, who, thanks to a phone call from one of the killer’s relatives, arrived before he even entered his victim’s apartment but did not intervene until after she was dead:
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Why did the police stand haplessly outside of Sarah Halimi’s apartment?
Eliezer and Itamar Ben-Yehudah.
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