Man sentenced to life in prison for killing Holocaust survivor in France
LA TimesFlowers and placards are displayed outside Mireille Knoll’s apartment March 28, 2018, in Paris. A French man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor to death in an antisemitic attack, a case that triggered widespread outrage and called attention to resurgent anti-Jewish sentiment in France. “We are exhausted but glad that they recognized the antisemitic nature of the attack,” her son Daniel Knoll told the Associated Press. The verdict “was appropriate for this horrible crime.” Knoll was found dead with multiple stab wounds in March 2018 in her apartment, which was then set ablaze. President Emmanuel Macron attended her funeral and said the attackers “profaned our sacred values and our history.” Yacine Mihoub, a neighbor who grew up in the Paris public housing project where Knoll had lived most of her life, was convicted of killing a vulnerable person based on religious motives, according to Knoll’s family.
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