His sentence is final.
There will be no second trial of the man convicted of the murder, with an anti-Semitic character, of Mireille Knoll in Paris in 2018. Yacine Mihoub, who was sentenced at the end of 2021 to life imprisonment with a period 22-year-old security by the Paris Assize Court, withdrew his appeal, which leads to the definitive closure of this procedure, we learned on Tuesday from a judicial source.
His co-defendant Alex Carrimbacus had already withdrawn his appeal: at the end of the trial, he had been acquitted of the murder but sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, with a two-thirds security sentence, for aggravated theft.
The anti-Semitic character was also retained for him, as well as the aggravating circumstance of the vulnerability of the victim, 85 years old and very weakened by Parkinson's disease.
Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus had met in prison.
They had been free for a short time when they accidentally found each other shortly before March 23, 2018. That day, both stayed a little over two hours in the apartment of Mireille Knoll - who had fled Paris to escape in 1942 in the Vel d'Hiv roundup - which Yacine Mihoub had known since childhood since she lived in the same HLM as her mother in eastern Paris.
The firefighters then discovered the partly charred body of Mireille Knoll, lacerated with eleven stab wounds.
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