The nanny, identified only as “Leila Y.,” was sentenced to three years in prison—six months of which were suspended.
A French court last week convicted a 42-year-old Algerian woman of poisoning her Jewish employers but cleared her of the aggravating circumstance of racist hatred, prompting protests from Jewish jurists.
The nanny, identified in French media only as “Leila Y.,” was sentenced to three years in prison—six months of which were suspended—for actions committed in January 2024. She deliberately contaminated the food of the Jewish family that employed her, including that of the three children, aged two to seven, in her care.
Prosecutors earlier this month charged her with causing deliberate harm by poisoning, citing an aggravating circumstance of racist hatred. The Correctional Tribunal of Nanterre later dismissed the aggravating circumstance, which could have doubled her sentence.
The family’s lawyers said they will seek to have the antisemitic motive recognized in a civil lawsuit they are filing against the nanny.