Son pays tribute after anti-Semitic murder of old woman in France скачать в хорошем качестве

Son pays tribute after anti-Semitic murder of old woman in France

(27 Mar 2018) The son of an elderly Jewish woman who was killed on Friday in her apartment said he still could not believe that someone could do that to his mother. Mireille Knoll, 85, was killed Friday in her apartment, which was then set on fire, according to a French judicial official. The president of the Jewish group CRIF said Knoll was stabbed 11 times. Daniell Knoll described his mother as a very nice, kind and sociable woman who enjoyed life to the fullest because she had gone through the hardship of war. "All those people that know what is the war they like the life, maybe more than these crazy people who do that," he said, referring to her killers. He said he didn't know how he would live on knowing what had happened to his mother. Two men have been jailed in the case, according to the judicial official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. They were handed preliminary charges of robbery, damaging property, and murder with anti-Semitic motives, he said. Knoll reportedly escaped a notorious World War II roundup of Paris Jews, in which police herded some 13,000 people - including more than 4,000 children - into a stadium and shipped them to the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi German-occupied Poland. Fewer than 100 survived. Then aged 9, Knoll fled with her mother to Portugal, returning to France only after the end of the war. French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that Knoll's death was a "horrific crime," and reaffirmed his "absolute determination to fight against anti-Semitism." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...