Yacine Mihoub, sentenced to life imprisonment for the anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll in 2018, appealed the judgment, AFP learned Monday from his lawyer, Me Charles Consigny, confirming information from RTL.
On November 10, the Paris Assize Court found this 32-year-old man guilty of having killed in Paris on March 23, 2018 Mireille Knoll, aged 85, with eleven stab wounds and his sentence with a period of twenty-two years.
The old lady, who escaped the Vel D'hiv roundup in 1942, was a neighbor of his mother's apartment building and he had a special relationship with her since he was a child.
The court ruled that the facts had taken place in a "global anti-Semitic context" and that "the villainous character was fueled by hatred because of the victim's membership" of the "Jewish religion" and by " beliefs that wealth may be concealed "in the victim's accommodation.
He denies the facts
During the trial, Yacine Mihoub denied having killed Mireille Knoll.
His co-accused, Alex Carrimbacus, 25, was cleared of the murder but sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment with a two-thirds safety sentence for aggravated theft from the victim.
The anti-Semitic character was also retained for him, as well as the aggravating circumstance of the vulnerability of Mireille Knoll, very weakened by Parkinson's disease.
Yacine Mihoub's mother, Zoulikha Khellaf, was sentenced to three years in prison, including one year at home under electronic surveillance.
She was found guilty of destroying objects and cleaning up the murder weapon.
With AFP
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