A Yemeni court ruled on Monday that a Muslim man who shot dead a Jewish man was mentally unstable and sent him to a psychiatric institution, but the victim’s father said he would appeal the verdict.
The court, which also fined Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi 5.5 million riyals ($27,500), said the sentence was based on a report that concluded the murder suspect was schizophrenic.
The victim’s father Yehiya bin Yaeesh rejected the ruling, saying his son Mashaa was in the company of four men — all Muslims — when he was shot in the town of Raida in December, and had clearly been targeted.
“If they were to give me the whole of (Yemen’s capital) Sanaa I would not accept this sentence,” Yaeesh said.
There are an estimated 200 to 300 Jews in Yemen, remnants of a community that spoke a form of ancient Hebrew. About 50,000 have moved to Israel since 1949.
Yemen has been battling Islamic militants for years and has grappled with a spate of attacks on Western targets this year, including two on the U.S. embassy.
(Dov Gordon – YWN)
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sounds like the stories we heard from a few hundred years ago, how the jew was alwas guilty and the guy who kills the jew is the victim who was mental and unstable! its really reminding us we aren’t safe and we need mosheach now!
So, because he’s unstable, send him back to live among the general population?! I don’t get it! As an unstable creature he could murder somebody in cold blood, why not feed him cyanide and help him become stabilized!
He stablized the Jew R”L, why not stablize him?M’mayla in the U.S., that’s our judicial system! Only the criminals have rights, ala Madoff, the innocent have no rights! Madoff sits in his plush home, while Reb Shalom Mortcha sat in prison! That’s the U.S., but abroad!!!!
Zoll G-t Rachmanus Hubbin!
FACT: Halocho Hi b’yadua, sh’Eisav Sonay L’Yaakov!
Remember for them Jewish blood is not red