Paris: Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said Tuesday.
Mireille Knoll, who escaped a mass roundup of Jews in Paris during World War II, was found dead in her apartment in eastern Paris on Friday by firefighters called to extinguish a blaze.
An autopsy showed she had been stabbed several times before the apartment was set on fire.
One of the suspects is a neighbour in his twenties whom she knew well and who had visited her that day, Knoll's son, who did not wish to be named, told AFP.
The second suspect, aged 21, has a history of violent robbery.
The death of the woman described by neighbours as very quiet has shocked the Jewish community, coming a year after an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties was beaten and thrown out of the window of her Paris flat by a neighbour shouting "Allahu Akhbar" (God is greatest).
Reacting on Twitter President Emmanuel Macron condemned the "dreadful" killing and reiterated his determination to fighting anti-Semitism.
After the war she returned to the French capital and married a Holocaust survivor, who died in the early 2000s.
Mireille Knoll, who escaped a mass roundup of Jews in Paris during World War II, was found dead in her apartment in eastern Paris on Friday by firefighters called to extinguish a blaze.
An autopsy showed she had been stabbed several times before the apartment was set on fire.
One of the suspects is a neighbour in his twenties whom she knew well and who had visited her that day, Knoll's son, who did not wish to be named, told AFP.
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The second suspect, aged 21, has a history of violent robbery.
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The death of the woman described by neighbours as very quiet has shocked the Jewish community, coming a year after an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties was beaten and thrown out of the window of her Paris flat by a neighbour shouting "Allahu Akhbar" (God is greatest).
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Reacting on Twitter President Emmanuel Macron condemned the "dreadful" killing and reiterated his determination to fighting anti-Semitism.
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After the war she returned to the French capital and married a Holocaust survivor, who died in the early 2000s.
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