Muslim Nanny Who Tried to Poison Jewish Family Is Acquitted of Antisemitism Charge

Despite spewing anti-Jewish rhetoric, aF rench appeals court denied an Algerian caretaker was driven by Jew hatred.

The decision by the Versailles Court of Appeal comes months after the nanny, identified as Leïla Y., 42, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Nanterre criminal court in December for attempting to poison the Jewish family she worked for with cleaning supplies.

The family’s lawyers, Patrick Klugman and Sacha Ghozlan, decried the ruling in a press release, saying that they would seek to appeal the decision again.

“This decision makes judicial repression of antisemitism impossible and turns legal texts, meant to be protective, into mere useless scraps of paper,” Klugman and Ghozlan said. “Faced with such a decision, litigants risk losing all