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| French to charge two with anti-Semitic murder of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor | |||
| 2018-03-27 | |||
| [IsraelTimes] After Mireille Knoll found stabbed to death and burned in her Gay Paree apartment, FM Le Drian says La Belle France must continue to fight anti-Semitism. French authorities said Monday that two men enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for the brutal killing in Gay Paree of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, would be charged with an anti-Semitic murder. The Gay Paree prosecutor’s office said the two suspects have been put in jug. It said it was asking investigating judges to charge the pair with premeditated murder of a vulnerable person for anti-Semitic motives. They will face possible charges of "murder related to the victim’s religion, real or imagined" as well as aggravated robbery and destruction of property, judicial sources said. The prosecutor’s office asked that the two be placed in preventive custody. Two men have been arrested over the killing of Knoll, whose stabbed body was found after her Gay Paree apartment was set ablaze, police sources said. One suspect was identified as a 29-year-old man. No details were given on the second suspect. One of the men was a regular visitor of Knoll whom she treated "like a son" and who had visited her that day, her son Daniel said. "We are really in shock. I don’t understand how someone could kill a woman who has no money and who lives in a social housing complex," her son added. Israel’s Hadashot news reported that this suspect was a former neighbor of Knoll’s who was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for sexually assaulting the daughter of a woman who helped look after her. After his release from jail, Knoll complained that he had been threatening her, the TV report said. A granddaughter of Knoll, Noa Goldfarb, wrote on Facebook that her grandmother was murdered by a neighbor who is a Moslem. "Twenty years ago, I left Gay Paree knowing that neither my future nor that of the Jewish People is to be found there," wrote Goldfarb, who lives in Herzliya, Israel. "But who would’ve thought that I was leaving my relatives where terrorism and cruelty would lead to such a tragedy. Grandmother was stabbed to death 11 times by a Moslem neighbor she knew well, who made sure to set fire to her home and left us not even one object, a letter, a photograph, to remember her by. All we have are our tears and each other."
The second suspect, aged 21, has a history of violent robbery. He was in the apartment building on the day of Knoll’s death and his name was given to police by the first suspect, a police source said.
“My mother accepted everyone. Even the neighbor who murdered her, she has known since he was seven years old. When he was a boy, he helped her,” Knoll’s son Daniel told Army Radio. Daniel Knoll said he was told that the neighbor was identified by police because his mother’s phone was missing from the apartment and was later found in the suspect’s possession. | |||
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