{"id":95684,"date":"2022-05-28T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95684"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:07:38","slug":"07-00-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95684","title":{"rendered":"French Prosecutor Will Examine Antisemitic Motive in Brutal Murder of Elderly Jewish Man After All"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>French Prosecutor Will Examine Antisemitic Motive in Brutal Murder of Elderly Jewish Man After All<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ben Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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89-year-old Jewish man Ren\u00e9 Hadjadj was pushed to his death from the 17th floor of an apartment building in Lyon, France. Photo: Twitter<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The public prosecutor in the French city of Lyon announced on Friday that he would examine whether the brutal killing on an elderly Jewish man was motivated by antisemitism, one week after local police\u00a0dismissed<\/a>\u00a0the possibility in their own investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

89-year-old Ren\u00e9 Hadjaj was pushed to his death on May 17 from the balcony on the 17th floor of the apartment building where he lived in the Duch\u00e8re district of Lyon. His fate brought to mind the murder in April 2017 of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman who was beaten and tortured in her Paris apartment by an Islamist intruder, who then ejected her from her third-floor window.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, Lyon\u2019s public prosecutor, Nicolas Jacquet, said that after being alerted to social media posts authored by Hadjaj\u2019s accused killer, he had decided to \u201cextend the referral to the investigating judges to the aggravating circumstance of an act committed for reasons of the victim belonging to a specific ethnic group, nation, race or religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacquet explained that while the initial police investigation had ruled out the killing as an antisemitic act,\u00a0to the dismay of the French Jewish community<\/a>,<\/strong> <\/span>\u201cno investigative hypothesis\u201d had been ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe judicial investigation is therefore now continuing on the count of intentional homicide on the grounds of the victim\u2019s belonging to a specific ethnic group, nation, race or religion,\u201d he reiterated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hadjaj\u2019s accused killer has been named as 51-year-old Rachid Khechiche, who regularly received visits from Hadjaj at his home in the apartment building where they both lived.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local news outlet\u00a0Le Progr\u00e8s<\/em>, which first reported on Hadjaj\u2019s killing, disclosed that Khechiche frequented antisemitic websites and social media feeds. On his Twitter feed, followed by 65 people, Khechiche described himself as a woman who was \u201cborn in France to parents of Algerian origin, fed with social communism in the schools of the Republic, social centers and rehabilitation association.\u201d He signed off his profile with the French phrase \u201cy\u2019en a marre<\/em>\u201d \u2014 \u201cwe are fed up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The paper said that Khechiche was fixated on the \u201cSayanim\u201d \u2014 an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming that the Mossad, Israel\u2019s secret service, uses prominent Jews in the diaspora as its agents, with the goal of clamping down on expressions of solidarity with the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the individuals targeted by Khechiche on social media was the French-Jewish lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel, whose clients include the family of Sarah Halimi. Goldnadel was labeled a \u201ctraitor to France\u201d by Khechiche in a tweet posted nearly two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, Goldnadel said on Twitter that Khechiche had \u201creminded me of my origins in the manner of the Islamists.\u201d He added, \u201cthe antisemitic truth is now no longer hidden. I won\u2019t let go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The rise of violent antisemitism in France over the last 20 years has featured several incidents of Jews being held captive and beaten in their own homes by antisemitic intruders. One year after Sarah Halimi\u2019s murder, 85-year-old\u00a0Mireille Knoll<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a Holocaust survivor, was stabbed and burned to death by two men, one of whom she had known since childhood, while in Sept. 2017, three members of the\u00a0Pinto family<\/a>\u00a0were subjected to a vicious assault and robbery by an antisemitic gang who broke into their Paris home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Jewish community in Paris was stunned by the death of 31-year-old J\u00e9r\u00e9my Cohen, who was fatally struck by a moving tram in the Paris suburb of Bobigny as he fled from a gang assault. Cohen\u2019s mother later\u00a0urged \u201ccaution<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in ascribing an antisemitic motive behind the attack on her son, whose kippah, which could have identified him as a Jew, was discovered at the scene<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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