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Sentenced for the murder of Mireille Knoll, Yacine Mihoub appeals

2021-11-15T22:27:13.854Z


The 32-year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment for the anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll in 2018 has appealed from ...


The 32-year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment for the anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll in 2018 appealed against the judgment, AFP learned Monday, November 15 from his lawyer, Me Charles Consigny, confirming information from RTL.

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On November 10, the Paris Assize Court found Yacine Mihoub, 32, guilty of killing in Paris on March 23, 2018 Mireille Knoll, 85, with eleven stab wounds and punishing her with one security period of twenty-two years.

The old lady, who escaped the Vel D'hiv roundup in 1942, was a neighbor of his mother's apartment building and he had a special relationship with her since he was a child.

"

Global anti-Semitic context

"

The court ruled that the facts had taken place in a "

global anti-Semitic context

" and that "

the villainous character was fueled by hatred because

of the victim's

membership

" of the "

Jewish religion

" and by "

beliefs that wealth may be concealed

”in the victim's accommodation. During the trial, Yacine Mihoub denied having killed Mireille Knoll.

His co-accused, Alex Carrimbacus, 25, was cleared of the murder but sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment with a two-thirds safety sentence for aggravated theft from the victim.

The anti-Semitic character was also retained for him, as well as the aggravating circumstance of the vulnerability of Mrs. Knoll, very weakened by Parkinson's disease Yacine Mihoub's mother, Zoulikha Khellaf, was sentenced to three years in prison , of which one year closes at home under electronic surveillance.

She was found guilty of destroying objects and cleaning up the murder weapon.

Source: lefigaro

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