https://www.timesofisrael.com/tunis...er-apparent-antisemitic-axe-murder-in-france/
The chief rabbi of Tunisia demanded on Tuesday that French authorities press full charges against a Muslim man who allegedly murdered a member of the Tunisian Jewish community in an antisemitic attack outside of Paris….
Haddad, 34, was murdered in Longperrier, just northeast of Paris, on August 20 by his neighbor, a Muslim man identified as Mohamed Dridi, who confessed to killing him with an axe and attempting to burn and bury the body, according to a statement by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Antisemitism (BNVCA).
The BNVCA said the suspect turned himself in to the police and told officers that Haddad, who lived next door to him, owed him 100 euros and had not returned them. He later also confessed that he had killed Haddad because he was Jewish….
Despite Dridi’s confession to killing Haddad because he was Jewish, investigators were reportedly also looking into the possibility that the attack was not fundamentally antisemitic in nature but the result of an argument between the two men, who apparently knew each other well.
Meyer Habib, a Jewish parliamentarian in France, said there were still “plenty of shadow areas in this story” but that the murder was being investigated by French authorities and that he “trusts the country’s judiciary to shed light on this terrible case.”…
