Paris (CNN) Two people have been arrested over the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris that is being investigated as a suspected anti-Semitic attack, a French judicial source told CNN on Tuesday. Mireille Knoll was stabbed 11 times in her apartment in the 11th arrondissement of Paris before her home was set on fire, according to government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux, who recounted the attack on Twitter. Two men are suspected of carrying out the attack, one of them being Knoll's 27-year-old neighbor, who was previously jailed for sexually assaulting the daughter of Knoll's domestic helper, the judicial source told CNN. The other is a 21-year-old homeless man, who was known to police for acts of violence. The apartment block in the 11th arrondisement of Paris where Mireille Knoll lived.

Source: CNN March 27, 2018 10:09 UTC