(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of an elderly Jewish woman to life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, over the 2018 murder which caused an outcry over anti-Semitism in France.
Yacine Mihoub was convicted of the murder of Mireille Knoll, 85, who was stabbed 11 times and whose body was partly burned after her Paris apartment was set alight on March 23, 2018.
A second defendant, Alex Carrimbacus, was acquitted of murder by the Paris court, but found guilty of theft with anti-Semitic motives, for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The court said that attack, which began as a robbery, was fuelled by “a broader context of anti-Semitism” and “prejudices” about the purported wealth of Jewish people, which led Mihoub to believe the victim had “hidden treasures” in her home.
