The Jewish community of France is charging that the anti-Semitic motives of a deadly attack on a Jewish woman are being denied.
The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) issued a short statement Wednesday containing four questions concerning the April 4 killing of Sarah Halimi in Paris.
“The murder of Sarah Halimi was 85 days ago already and the investigation is not advancing. Why this silence? Why this omerta?” read the statement, which contained the Italian-language mafia term for a code of silence about criminal activity and a refusal to give evidence to authorities. “What is being hidden? Why this denial of anti-Semitism?” 
In April, Sarah Halimi was thrown from a window in Paris. As she fell to her death, her murderer screamed “Allahu akbar
Kobili Traore, the murderer, had a history of antipathy toward Jews in general and his victim in particular. Only two years before the assault, he called Halimi’s daughter a “dirty Jew.” But when he was arrested he was temporarily institutionalized as he had claimed temporary insanity and, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, there was no reference to possible hate crime charges in the criminal indictment.
Immediately after the murder, Joel Mergui, the President of the Consistoire (the Israelite Central Consistory of France), said that he refused “to accept the convenient pretext of madness for a murderer who tried to make the victim look like a suicide case in front of witnesses who were powerless to act” and called on the police to “to look into the anti-Semitic character of this murder.”
Jewish organizations have said that they have received little to no information on the ongoing investigation.
In an op-ed in Le Figaro on Monday, CRIF President Francis Kalifat wrote "there is evidence that this is a textbook case of an anti-Semitic murder, but it is being covered up by an ‘omerta’ and this heinous crime has not been recognized for what it is."
“Our society is struggling to confront this new reality and to recognize the obviousness of naming evil when it comes to a Jewish victim," he said.
