90 Miles From Tyranny : Two islamofascists charged with fatally stabbing Holocaust survivor

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Two islamofascists charged with fatally stabbing Holocaust survivor

Two Muslim men have been charged with fatally stabbing an 85-year-old French Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust – and Paris prosecutors say the death is being probed as an “anti-Semitic murder.”

Mireille Knoll, 85, who escaped a notorious roundup of Parisian Jews shipped off to Auschwitz, was found dead Friday with 11 stab wounds in her torched apartment in Paris’ eastern 11th district.

The public prosecutor’s department in Paris opened its probe into “a murder based on the assumption that the vulnerable victim belonged to a specific religion.”

“All the necessary means will be mobilized so that we will figure out the motivations of the authors of this barbaric act, which reminds us of the darkest hours of our history,” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said, CNN reported. “To attack a Jew, it is to attack France and the values that establish the foundation of the nation.”

As a child in France during World War II, Knoll managed to escape the 1942 roundup of more than 13,000 Jews by fleeing with her mother to Portugal, Paris lawmaker Meyer Habib told Reuters.

Thousands of Jews were taken to the Velodrome d’Hiver cycling track that year and sent on to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

After the war, Kroll returned to the French capital and married a Holocaust survivor, who died in the early 2000s.

One of the men is a neighbor in his 20s whom Knoll knew well and who had visited her that day, Knoll’s son, who did not wish to be named, told Agence France-Presse

A police source told AFP that the suspect had convictions for rape and sexual assault.

The second suspect, aged 21, has a history of violent robbery. He was in Knoll’s building on the day of her death, a police source said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has described Knoll’s killing as a...Read More HERE

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