(AFP) Two men went on trial on Tuesday over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime.
The partly burned body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was found in her apartment in central Paris after she had been stabbed 11 times before her home was set on fire.
President Emmanuel Macron attended the funeral of the survivor of a notorious 1942 roundup of more than 13,000 Jews in Paris during World War II which she escaped by fleeing with her mother to Portugal.
Two men have been charged with her killing, a 25-year-old homeless man with psychiatric problems and the 31-year-old son of one of [Knoll’s] neighbours.
