Trial of the murder of Mireille Knoll: life imprisonment required against the “sole perpetrator” of the “savage” crime – archyde

The case had brought latent anti-Semitism back to the fore in France, a year after the Sarah Halimi murder, a Jewish sexagenarian thrown from her balcony. In the context of the protagonists’ trial of the murder of Mireille Knoll, an octogenarian killed by eleven stab wounds in Paris in March 2018, the prosecution asked, Tuesday, November 9, life imprisonment for Yacine Mihoub and eighteen years imprisonment for Alex Carrimbacus.

Yacine Mihoub, 32, is “The only author”, “The only person responsible for the particularly savage murder of Mr.^me Knoll ‘, declared the Advocate General, Jean-Christophe Muller, before the Assize Court of Paris. He did so “Because she was in a state of vulnerability”, and this, in “A context of anti-Semitism”. The public prosecutor attached his requisition to life imprisonment with a security period of eighteen years against Mr. Mihoub, already convicted six times, in particular for sexual assault.

Mr. Carrimbacus, 25, is “Neither accomplice nor co-perpetrator of the murder” but by ” contamination “, its anti-Semitic character “Is also attributable to him”, added the Advocate General. He called for an eighteen-year prison sentence for aggravated theft, with a safety period of nine years.

In addition, three years’ imprisonment has been requested for 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.

Discussion on “Jews and Money”

On March 23, 2018, firefighters called for a fire in an HLM in eastern Paris discovered on her medical bed the body of Mireille Knoll, larded by eleven stab wounds and partly charred. During the investigation and throughout the trial, the two defendants delivered conflicting versions, incriminating each other for murder, and rejected any accusation of anti-Semitism. However, during his custody, Alex Carrimbacus had mentioned a discussion on “The Jews and the money” which would have provoked a reaction from M^me Knoll. According to Mihoub, none of this is true.

If, at the end of two and a half weeks, the hearing did not make it possible to establish a convincing truth, it has, in any case, brought to light “The respective propensity to lie of the two accused”, as the prosecution points out in its order. In this maze, the jury will have to render a judgment which will tell the judicial truth. A truth that could leave Mireille Knoll’s children in a form of disarray. “We want to know who did what, Daniel Knoll had launched. If, at the end of this trial, we still don’t know the truth, one day we will leave and we will be missing something. ” Verdict, Wednesday, November 10.