Ghozlan was among many critics of a 2019 court ruling that found the killer of another Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, unfit to stand trial. JTA — Two men who allegedly killed and robbed a Holocaust survivor in her Paris apartment will stand trial for murder that was aggravated by anti-Semitic hatred, Paris prosecutors said. French prosecutors have called for two men accused of murdering a Holocaust survivor in her eastern Paris council flat to be tried for killing her on anti-Semitic grounds.President Emmanuel Macron, who attended her funeral at the time amid widespread public mourning, said: “She was killed simply because she was Jewish.” Her neighbour, Yacine Mihoub, 30 is now in custody along with another suspect, 24-year old Alex Carrimbacus with mental health issues.On Thursday night, Paris prosecutors called for the pair to be tried for “murder of a vulnerable person due to the victim’s real or supposed affiliation to a religion”.It is now up to the investigating magistrates conducting the investigation to decide whether to retain the motive of anti-Semitism.Prosecutors pointed out that Yacine Mihoub had scrawled graffiti in praise of the Paris terror attacks in his cell and had conducted internet searches on the liberation of Palestine, Salafist Islam and the Muslim brotherhood.Carrimbacus is thought to have asked whether the victim was rich.“This evidence legitimately raises the question over Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus’s state of mind and the deep reason for the murder,” the prosecution was cited as arguing in Le Parisien.The Knoll family’s lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel, said: “It is a satisfaction to see the prosecution recognise that Mrs Knoll was both an old lady and a Jewish woman and that she was killed for both reasons.”Alex Carrimbacus told investigators that his friend had said “Jews are loaded”.His lawyer, Karim Laouafi, said he was “surprised” that both suspects were “on the same level”.“The prosecution’s hypothesis is that they both struck the victim but one cannot reason using mere hypotheses in such a serious case. One, a 29-year-old neighbor of Knoll, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, and had known her since he was a child, and the other, an unemployed 21-year-old. The two suspects entered the apartment and reportedly stabbed Knoll eleven times before setting her on fire. On Thursday night, Paris prosecutors called for the pair to be tried for “murder of a vulnerable person due to the victim’s real or supposed affiliation to a religion”. The decision was upheld on appeal. Carrimbacus has a history of psychiatric problems. Sammy Ghozlan, the head of the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Antisemitism, said his group was “satisfied” with the indictment.

Yacine Mihoub, 30, and his associate Alex Carrimbacus, 25, are alleged to have brutally murdered 85-year-old Mireille Knoll — a survivor of the mass deportation of the Jews of Paris in July 1942 — in her apartment on the Avenue Philippe-Auguste on March 23, 2018. The suspected killer, Kobili Traore, was a Muslim who shouted about Allah and called Halimi, his neighbor, a “demon” as he pummeled her to death in her apartment in 2017.

Knoll’s neighbor, 28-year-old Yacine Mihoub, met his fellow accomplice, 21-year-old Alex Carrimbacus, during a prison sentence he was serving in 2016. Carrimbacus has a history of psychiatric problems. Ammonium nitrate: what is it and why did it cause the blast in Beirut? Hospitals prescribe lullabies to help Covid patients breathe easier She must have money.” The two suspects have accused each other of the stabbing, one o… Teaching union threatens that 'many' schools will not open in September 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 had said during questioning that he and Mihoub targeted Knoll for robbery because she was Jewish, a claim denied by Mihoub. 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. 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. Halimi’s daughter said that in 2015, Traore had called the daughter “dirty Jewess” in the building’s elevator. Carrimbacus has a history of psychiatric problems. A longtime neighbour, Yacine Mihoub, and associate Alexandre Carrimbacus were arrested on charges of murder and aggravated robbery, though … The charred body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was discovered in her apartment on March 23, 2018.

Her neighbour, Yacine Mihoub, 30 is now in custody along with another suspect, 24-year old Alex Carrimbacus with mental health issues. My client acknowledges responsibility on certain points but firmly contests the crime,” he said.Yacine Mihoub’s lawyers, Fabrice de Korodi and Charles Consigny,  that the charge of anti-Semitism was based “solely on the changing and implausible declarations of the second suspect”.His client’s only fault was to have “let Alex Carrimbacus into Mireille Knoll’s flat”, he asserted.Jewish groups have accused French prosecutors in recent years of glossing over anti-Semitism as a motive, notably over the murder of Sarah Halimi, 65, thrown out of the window of her flat in Paris in 2017 by Kobili Traoré, who lived in the same building.At first not considered a hate crime, the charge was eventually amended to “murder with anti-Semitism as an aggravating factor”.However, a court late last year rule her attacker was “not criminally responsible for his actions”.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.