The other accused, Alex Carrimbacus, sentenced to 15 years in prison, was not found guilty of the murder, the anti-Semitic nature of which has been accepted.
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More than three years after the murder of Mireille Knoll, justice has ruled. Yacine Mihoub, 32, was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a safety period of 22 years, by the Paris Assize Court, Wednesday, November 10, for the murder of the 85-year-old victim. His co-accused, Alex Carrimbacus, 25, was not convicted of stabbing the octogenarian with the eleven stab wounds, but was sentenced to 15 years in prison for theft. The anti-Semitic nature of the murder and theft was upheld by the Assize Court.
Both were accused of stealing, setting fire and killing Mireille Knoll on March 23, 2018 in Paris, with the aggravating circumstances that the 85-year-old victim was vulnerable, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and that she belonged to to the Jewish community. Since the start of the trial, the two defendants have blamed each other for the murder, with much support from “lies” denounced by the civil parties.
The Advocate General had ruled on Tuesday in his indictment. For him, Yacine Mihoub is “the only author” of this murder “particularly wild” and acted “because she [la victime] was in a state of vulnerability “. The magistrate also insisted on the “context of anti-Semitism”, recalling that “Mr. Mihoub’s manifestations of anti-Semitism are obviously numerous”. He had requested life imprisonment, with a safety period of 18 years.
As for Alex Carrimbacus, he is not “neither accomplice nor co-perpetrator of the murder”, according to the Advocate General. But, by “contamination”, the anti-Semitic nature of the murder “is also attributable to him”, according to the magistrate, who had required against him 18 years imprisonment for aggravated theft, with a safety period of nine years.