The man, Yacine Mihoub, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Mireille Knoll, 85, in 2018, which judges said was a hate crime motivated by the fact that she was Jewish.
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Trial in Holocaust Survivor’s Killing Begins in France
Mireille Knoll, 85, was killed in 2018 in what prosecutors and the authorities called a hate crime. Decades earlier, she had escaped a notorious roundup of Jews.
Top French Court Rules Killer of Jewish Woman Cannot Stand Trial
To the alarm of Jewish leaders, Sarah Halimi’s killer will go unpunished because of his mental state, brought on by cannabis, at the time of the crime.