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2021-11-11 Europe
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Paris court hands life sentence to murderer of French Holocaust survivor
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[IsraelTimes] Yacine Mihoub given no chance of parole for 22 years over 2018 killing of Mireille Knoll, which sparked an outcry about antisemitism in La Belle France.
A French court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of an elderly Jewish woman to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, over the 2018 murder which caused an outcry over antisemitism in La Belle France.
Yacine Mihoub was convicted of the murder of Mireille Knoll, 85, who was stabbed 11 times and whose body was partly burned after her Gay Paree apartment was set alight on March 23, 2018.
A second defendant, Alex Carrimbacus, was acquitted of murder by the Gay Paree court, but found guilty of theft with anti-Semitic motives, for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The court said that attack, which began as a robbery, was fueled by "a broader context of antisemitism" and "prejudices" about the purported wealth of Jewish people, which led Mihoub to believe the victim had "hidden treasures" in her home.
Knoll’s family hailed the verdict as "just."
French President Emmanuel Macron attended the funeral of the octogenarian, who had survived a notorious 1942 roundup of Jews in Gay Paree during World War II by fleeing with her mother to Portugal and who later married an Auschwitz survivor.
Mihoub, the son of one of Kroll’s neighbors who described her as being like a "surrogate grandmother" to him, denied any hand in her death, blaming Carrimbacus instead.
Knoll’s murder caused added repugnance because she was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and could not move unassisted.
Knoll’s son Daniel told the court that when his mother let Mihoub, who had done odd jobs for her for years, into her home "she never expected that the person she had protected for years would become her executioner."
In his final statement to the court on Wednesday, Carrimbacus told Knoll’s family he regretted not preventing an attack described by the prosecution as "particularly savage."
The attack was classified as antisemitic after Carrimbacus told Sherlocks he overheard Mihoub arguing with Kroll on the day of her death "about Jews’ money and their wealth."
He also claimed Mihoub, who had multiple convictions for violence, shouted "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") while stabbing her.
Prosecutors also pointed to messages glorifying jihadist attacks found in Mihoub’s prison cell as proof of his alleged antisemitism.
La Belle France’s 500,000-strong Jewish community, the biggest in Europe, has been rocked by a series of attacks in recent years by radical Islamists that have targeted Jews.
During the three-week murder trial the defendants, both repeat offenders who had become acquainted in prison, blamed each other for her death.
The case drew parallels with the killing in 2017 of an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties, Sarah Halimi, who was thrown out of the window of her Gay Paree apartment by a neighbor shouting "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest.")
La Belle France’s highest court ruled in April that the killer in that case, Kobili Traore, was not criminally responsible after succumbing to a "delirious fit" under the influence of drugs and could not be put on trial.
That ruling infuriated the victim’s family as well as Jewish groups, and prompted Macron to urge a change in French law to ensure people face responsibility for violent mostly peaceful crimes while under the influence of drugs. 
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