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Paris prosecutors say murder of Holocaust survivor was anti-Semitic
[IsraelTimes] Yacine Mihoub, Alex Carrimbacus plead not guilty to 2018 slaying of Mireille Knoll, which prosecution alleges was aggravated by hatred of Jews.

Two men who allegedly killed and robbed a Holocaust survivor in her Gay Paree apartment will stand trial for murder that was aggravated by anti-Semitic hatred, Gay Paree prosecutors said.

The charred body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was discovered in her apartment on March 23, 2018.

Yacine Mihoub, 28, a son of Knol’s neighbor who had known her all his life, and his friend Alex Carrimbacus, 22, were indicted Thursday. Carrimbacus has a history of psychiatric problems.

Carrimbacus had said during questioning that he and Mihoub targeted Knoll for robbery because she was Jewish, a claim denied by Mihoub. Both men have pleaded not guilty
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, AFP reported.

Sammy Ghozlan, the head of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism, said his group was "satisfied" with the indictment.

Ghozlan was among many critics of a 2019 court ruling that found the killer of another Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, unfit to stand trial.

The suspected killer, Kobili Traore, was a Moslem who shouted about Allah and called Halimi, his neighbor, a "demon" as he pummeled her to death in her apartment in 2017. Halimi’s daughter said that in 2015, Traore had called the daughter "dirty Jewess" in the building’s elevator.

A judge accepted the prosecution’s position that anti-Semitism motivated Traore to kill Halimi, but found him unfit to stand trial, citing a "psychotic episode" shortly before the incident that was deemed to be caused by smoking too much marijuana. The decision was upheld on appeal.
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