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Bullshit.

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by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 03:00:38 AM EST
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It can be complicated. A guy who had shot a North African person a few years ago while shouting, "Sale Arab", was able on trial to convince the jury (and most of the press) that there was no racist motive behind the killing. The shooter was adamant there was no racist motive behind the crime. He still did get the usual 25 years in jail that the French justice system gives for that kind of murder.

At one point, there are enough immigrants within a country that they too become victims of random murders...

The murdered was Chaib Zehaf, after a quick google.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 03:52:38 AM EST
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linca: At one point, there are enough immigrants within a country that they too become victims of random murders...

Very good point.

linca: A guy who had shot a North African person a few years ago while shouting, "Sale Arab", was able on trial to convince the jury (and most of the press) that there was no racist motive behind the killing.

Poor guy: he missed his true calling as a lawyer.

I'll have to read the coverage, but I just don't see how he could get away with claiming that this was not a racially motivated murder if he was shouting "sale Arabe".

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by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 04:20:14 AM EST
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The first thing is, at the time of the killing, I remember the press covering the case depicting it as a clearly racist murder. At the time of the trial, the press was much less sanguine about seeing as a racist murder.

His defense was that he was a drunk, violent person, and that the "sale arabe" witnesses were far from the place of the murder. He was also quite contrite.

Note that as a lawyer his defense wasn't so good : he got very close to the maximum penalty for murder without an aggravating circumstance (which is 30 years), and it is likely that if the racist motive had been accepted he'd have gotten about the same time in jail.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Jan 6th, 2010 at 04:35:18 AM EST
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