A French court on Thursday, December 18, sentenced a nanny to a two-and-a-half year jail term for poisoning the parents of Jewish children in her care in 2024, but ruled out the aggravating circumstance of antisemitism.
The 42-year-old Algerian woman had been working as a nanny for their three children when the parents filed a complaint in January 2024 after noticing that a bottle of grape juice smelled of bleach and that the mother's eye makeup remover burned her eyes.
She initially admitted while in police custody to pouring cleaning products into bottles of alcohol belonging to her employers, telling the officers she "never should have worked for a Jewish woman."
During the trial, the defendant recanted her confession, saying she had "made up" the story under police pressure and denied any antisemitic motive.
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