Yacine Mihoub, convicted of the murder, with an anti-Semitic character, of Mireille Knoll in Paris in 2018, withdrew his appeal, which leads to the definitive closure of this procedure, AFP learned on Tuesday January 10 from a judicial source. .
Information confirmed by his lawyer.
Mihoub was sentenced at the end of 2021 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Paris Assize Court for the murder of the octogenarian.
His co-accused, Alex Carrimbacus, had already withdrawn his appeal.
At the end of the trial, he was acquitted of the murder but sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, with a two-thirds security sentence, for aggravated theft.
The anti-Semitic character was also retained for him, as well as the aggravating circumstance of the vulnerability of Mireille Knoll, 85 years old and very weakened by Parkinson's disease.
Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus had met in prison.
They had been free for a short time when they accidentally found each other shortly before March 23, 2018. That day, both stayed a little over two hours in the apartment of Mireille Knoll - who had fled Paris to escape in 1942 in the Vel d'Hiv roundup - which Yacine Mihoub had known since childhood since she lived in the same HLM as her mother in eastern Paris.
The firefighters then discovered the partly charred body of Mireille Knoll, lacerated with eleven stab wounds.