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Why was Mireille Knoll murdered in her home in 2018? Was anti-Semitism the motive of the two defendants who have been heard since Tuesday, October 26, before the Paris Assize Court?
Journalist Nathalie Perez attended a first face-to-face trial for the family of Mireille Knoll, murdered in 2018. “It was a trying time for the victim’s sons, who kept staring at these two men accused of murdering their mother as if, they say, trying to understand the incomprehensible. It was Yacine Mihoub, Mireille Knoll’s neighbor who was the first to be questioned by the Court“, continues the journalist, live for the 19/20 of France 3, Tuesday October 26.
“And he will, with great confidence, reaffirm his innocence. “I only recognize the fire in this apartment, and nothing anti-Semitic,” he says. His co-defendant, who will be heard by the Court from Wednesday, October 27, also claims his innocence. “I just robbed the old lady,” he told investigators. The two men blame each other for the crime, and that is the whole point of this trial.“, continues the journalist. The objective of the trial, which opened Tuesday at the Assize Court of Paris: to determine who carried the eleven stab wounds to Mireille Knoll, and why.