A Paris court sentenced a 32-year-old man to life for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, a crime that sparked debate about France’s efforts to stop anti-Semitic attacks
the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor
, a crime that sparked questions over whether France was doing enough to address a spate of anti-Semitic attacks. Yacine Mihoub was found guilty of stabbing 85-year-old Mireille Knoll to death in her home in the east of Paris before leaving her in the burning apartment, a Paris court said late Wednesday. A second man, Alex Carrimbacus, 25, was acquitted of murder charges but sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated theft.
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