In France, where more than half of French Jews feel such anxiety for their safety that they have considered emigrating, a series of court cases suggest that when it comes to antisemitic attacks, courts prefer not to believe their “lying eyes,” and instead deny the relevance of the antisemitism that is staring them in the face. More on French judges who deny that antisemitism played a part in violence — rapes, poisonings, murders — against Jews, can be found here: “French Court Rejects Antisemitism Charge in Murder of 89-Year-Old Jewish Man,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, February 5, 2026:
A French court on Thursday tossed out antisemitic-motivated charges against a 55-year-old man convicted of murdering his 89-year-old Jewish neighbor in 2022, in what appears to be yet another instance of France’s legal system brushing aside antisemitism.
French authorities in Lyon, in southeastern France, acquitted defendant Rachid Kheniche of aggravated murder charges on antisemitic grounds, rejecting the claim that the killing was committed on account of the victim’s religion.
According to French media, the magistrate of the public prosecutor’s office refused to consider the defendant’s prior antisemitic behavior, including online posts spreading hateful content and promoting conspiracy theories about Jews and Israelis, arguing that it was not directly related to the incident itself. The jurors ultimately agreed and dismissed the presence of an antisemitic motive.
The magistrate deserves formal censure for refusing to consider the murderer’s antisemitic behavior as relevant to his murder of his elderly Jewish neighbor. Rachid Kheniche posted online, apparently extensively, conspiracy theories about Jews and Israelis. Of course his obsession with Jews was connected to the murder; it was in fact the main, if not the sole, reason for the murder: Kheniche’s online posts show that he hated Jews with a maniacal, murderous hatred. The magistrate does not deny that; he simply claims that such hatred was not “directly related” to the murder. But that antisemitism is the fons et origo of the murder of that elderly Jewish man. To deny its relevance is nonsense.
In May 2022, Kheniche threw his neighbor, René Hadjadj, from the 17th floor of his building, an act to which he later admitted.
According to the police investigation, Kheniche and his neighbor were having a discussion when the conflict escalated.
At the time, he told investigators that he had tried to strangle Hadjadj but did not realize what he was doing, as he was experiencing a paranoid episode caused by prior drug use.
Of course. How often have we heard that said of Muslim killers in the West? He was having a sudden mental crisis, a “paranoid episode,” he had no idea where he was, or what he was doing with his hands round the neck of his neighbor. And he didn’t realize he was throwing Hadjadj out the window on the seventeenth floor. He doesn’t deserve prison, he needs psychiatric care.
The court concluded that he was mentally impaired at the time of the crime, reducing his criminal responsibility and lowering the maximum sentence for murder to 20 years….
How hard do you think it is for a murderer to feign mental illness in order to get a shorter sentence, and one focused not on punishment, but on “restoring his sanity”?
Kheniche was ultimately sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison and six years of “socio-judicial monitoring.”…
A sentence of only 18 years for murder? Not life? Kheniche’s performance as someone mentally impaired must have been quite convincing.
Kheniche previously referred on social media to “sayanim,” a conspiracy term used to refer to a sleeper agent for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. He also reportedly took passport photos and a text in Hebrew found in his victim’s jacket and cut them out. But the magistrate argued that the law required the court only to consider the facts “at the same time as the crime committed,” thereby dismissing past antisemitic and conspiratorial comments….
Past antisemitic comments by Rachid Kheniche ought not to be ignored. They show his state of mind — he hated Jews; he was obsessed with both Jews, and Israel — at the time he threw René Hadjadj out of the window on the seventeenth floor. What would have satisfied this magistrate that antisemitism was a major factor in the murder? Nothing less, it seems, than someone testifying that he heard Kheniche exclaim “death to Jews” at the very moment when he pushed Hadjadj to his death.
rick says
I think that Jews are lucky he was sentenced to 18 years. I expected a pleas of temporary insanity resulting in maybe 1-3 years in a mental ward. I do not expect Justice in any form in a French legal system. It is only one step better than justice to be served in the killing of a Jew in a Syrian or Egyptian court.
You know the Koranic saying that Muslims should not make friends with Jews? Well that goes double for Jews making acquaintances with Muslims. Don’t do it. If called to a meeting with one that doesn’t quite make sense the best solution is do not go. The second best if you must appear is to bring as gun and be prepared to use it. Sounds harsh but Muslims do not have meetings with Jews to discuss Sports or recipes. Beware at all times and best is to not have contact with them. Sorry but your life is at stake.
Tony says
State execution for murder would be a win-win because the Muslim would be happy to reach his goal with Allah as taught in the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause to make Islam Supreme], so they kill and are killed…”.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Of course they did! What else is new: this has been decades in the making
Billy says
Leftists partner with Islam’s Muslims against Non-Muslims because Muslims discriminate, violate, and terrorize Non-Muslims which Leftists believe will help them gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control. Despite the Muslim lies and deceit, Islam and its Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for satanic Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88; 45:18; 47:4; 60:4, etc.). Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO).
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Deceitful Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” As evidenced by continuous Muslim attacks, Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Again, Islam is a civilization-destroying, totalitarian, and supremacist system of lies and deceit because Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit as taught in Islam’s Qur’an. Muslims under Islam’s system of deceit are more easily controlled because there is no foundation for truth in Islam. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
Brenrod says
Poor journalism omits name of magistrate who omitted acts of anti semitism.
jerry glenn says
France surges in the European Islamopandering derby.