The suspect allegedly smoked up to 15 marijuana joints per day at the time of the murder he’s accused of, which apparently led the authorities to doubt his ability to control his behavior.

Kobili Traore, a 29-year old native of Mali who is accused of murdering Sarah Halimi, a 65-year old Jewish physician and kindergarten teacher in Paris in 2017, might not be criminally responsible for his actions because he smoked marijuana prior to the attack, a French judge has ruled.

According to Le Parisien, the investigating judge said that there are “plausible reasons” to believe that Traore was not responsible for his actions at the time of the attack, and dismissed the alleged anti-semitic nature of the crime.

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