Sentenced for murder of Mireille Knoll, Yacine Mihoub appeals

On November 10, the 32-year-old man was sentenced to perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the antisemic murder of octogenarian, in 2018.

Le Monde

The 32-year-old man sentenced to perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll in 2018 appealed judgment, learned the France-Presse Agency Monday, November 15 with his lawyer, M e Charles Consigny, confirming RTL information

On November 10, the Assize Court of Paris acknowledged Yacine Mihoub, 32, guilty of killing Paris on March 23, 2018 Mireille Knoll, aged 85, eleven stab wounds and matched his sentence a period of security of twenty-two years.

The old lady, who had escaped the raid of the Véle ‘of HIV in 1942, was a neighboring neighbor of his mother and he had a special relationship with her since he was a child.

“Global anti-Semite context”

The Court felt that the facts had registered in a “global anti-Semitic context” and that “the crapful character was fueled by a hatred because of the belonging” of the victim to the “Jewish religion” and by “beliefs that wealth can be concealed” in the housing of the victim.

During the trial, Yacine Mihoub denied having killed Mireille Knoll.

His co-accusation, Alex Carrimbacus, 25, was innocent for murder but sentenced to fifteen years with a two-thirds security sentence for aggravated flights among the victim. The anti-Semitic character was also retained for him, as well as the aggravating circumstance of the vulnerability of M me Knoll, very weakened by Parkinson’s disease

The mother of Yacine Mihoub, Zoulikha Khellaf, was sentenced to three years in prison, one year ago at home under electronic supervision. It has been found guilty of destroying objects and cleaned the crime weapon.

/Media reports.