“The one responsible for the particularly savage murder of Ms. [Mireille] Knoll “ is Yacine Mihoub, said Advocate General Jean-Christophe during his indictment.
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The Advocate General requested life imprisonment against Yacine Mihoub for the murder of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman had been stabbed eleven times in her Parisian home in March 2018. Yacine Mihoub is “the sole responsible for the particularly savage murder of Mrs. [Mireille] Knoll “ and its manifestations of anti-Semitism are “many”, declared Jean-Christophe Muller before the Assize Court of Paris, Tuesday, November 9. The public prosecutor attached his requisition to life imprisonment with a security period of eighteen years against Yacine Mihoub, already convicted six times, notably for sexual assault.
“The moment we enter now, is a moment in which the noise and the fury that we have been faced with during the debates, will give way to reflection and judgment.”, said Jean-Christophe Muller at the beginning of his indictment, according to a journalist from France Inter present at the hearing. “If you had read Anne Frank’s diary, which we found at your home, you might have seen, in Mireille Knoll’s gaze that you wore in the bedroom before stabbing her, the same gaze as Anne Frank, at the sound of boots in the house where she was hiding. “
Eighteen years of imprisonment were required for aggravated theft against Alex Carrimbacus, with a safety period of nine years. It is not “neither accomplice nor co-perpetrator of the murder”, said Jean-Christophe Muller, but by “contamination”, its anti-Semitic character “is also attributable”. In addition, three years’ imprisonment has been requested against Yacine Mihoub’s mother, Zoulikha Khellaf, 61 years old. She is accused of destroying items related to the crime scene and cleaning the knife used to kill Mireille Knoll.
During the investigation and throughout the trial, Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus delivered conflicting versions, incriminating each other for the murder, and dismissing any accusation of anti-Semitism. Mireille Knoll’s death came a year after the murder of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian thrown from her balcony. It had sparked a great “white march” in Paris and relaunched the debate on anti-Semitism in France.