Yacine Mihoub was sentenced Wednesday, November 10 by the Assize Court of Paris to life imprisonment with a safety period of 22 years for the murder of Mireille Knoll, in March 2018.
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His co-accused Alex Carrimbacus was acquitted for the murder of the 85-year-old Jewish lady but was given a 15-year prison sentence with a two-thirds safety sentence for the theft of the victim.
The anti-Semitic nature of the murder and the theft was upheld by the Assize Court.
"
Particularly savage murder
"
Before his judges, Yacine Mihoub, 32, said he was "
sorry for the family of the victim
" and once again denied having carried the eleven stab wounds to the victim.
He was accused on March 23, 2018 in Paris of having stolen, set on fire and killed Mireille Knoll, with the aggravating circumstances that the 85-year-old victim was vulnerable, suffering from Parkinson's disease - and that she belonged to the community Jewish.
Yacine Mihoub is "
the sole responsible for the particularly savage murder of Mireille Knoll
" and his manifestations of anti-Semitism are "
numerous
", had declared the Advocate General Jean-Christophe Muller before the Assize Court of Paris.