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France: Holocaust imprisonment for the murder of Holocaust survivor Miriam Knoll
Yassin Meyhoub stabbed the 85-year-old Jewish woman many times in her apartment in Paris, then set her on fire.
The court ruled that he acted on antisemitic motives, after another defendant, who was acquitted of murder, said he quarreled with her about "Jews' money" and shouted "Allah Akbar" at the time of the murder
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Thursday, 11 November 2021, 10:17
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A French court yesterday (Wednesday) sentenced a Holocaust survivor, Miriam Knoll, to life in prison in 2018, without the possibility of parole for 22 years. Yassin Meyhoub was convicted of the 85-year-old murder of Knoll, who was stabbed 11 times and her body partially cremated after her Paris apartment was set on fire on March 23, 2018.
The second defendant in the trial, Alex Krimbakus, is guilty of misdemeanor, but convicted of antisemitic motives and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Mahob, the son of one of Kamul's neighbors who said he was a sort of "surrogate grandmother" for him, denied any connection to her murder and accused Crimbakus of doing so. However, the court ruled that the attack, which began as a robbery, was fueled by a "broader context of anti-Semitism" and "prejudice" about the so-called wealth of the Jewish people, which led Meyhoub to believe that Knoll "hid treasures" in her home.
During the three-week trial, the two defendants, who have a rich criminal record who knew each other in prison, blamed each other for her murder. As "particularly cruel."
The murder was classified as antisemitic after Crimbakus told investigators he heard Mehov arguing with Carol on the day of her death "about the money of the Jews and their wealth."
He also claimed that Mahib shouted "Allah Akbar" while stabbing her.
Prosecutors also cited statements praising terrorist attacks found in his jail cell as proof of his antisemitic motives.
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A sign in memory of Knoll during a memorial march in Paris, 2018 (Photo: GettyImages)
Knoll's family said the verdict was "right."
Knoll's son, Daniel, told the court that when his mother let Mihob, who had done casual work for her for years, enter her home "she never expected the person she had defended for years to become her killer."
The antisemitic murder has shocked France, whose Jewish community has been suffering from growing Islamist violence in recent years.
President Emanuel Macron attended Knoll's funeral, and some 30,000 people attended the memorial march, including ministers and leaders of French political parties.
She survived a notorious deportation of Jews from Paris in 1942, when she fled with her mother to Portugal and later married a Holocaust survivor Auschwitz.
Her murder caused another shock because she was a Parkinson's patient and could not move without help.
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