French investigators are treating the killing of an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris as an anti-Semitic murder, after it emerged that she had survived France’s most notorious second World War round-up of Jews in 1942. After the war Ms Knoll settled in Paris and married a Holocaust survivor, who died in the early 2000s. The CRIF umbrella grouping of French Jewish organisations called for “the fullest transparency” by the authorities investigating the killing. Last month, a judge confirmed that the April 2017 murder of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old orthodox Jewish woman who was beaten and thrown out of her window in the same Paris arrondissement, was motivated by anti-Semitism. The judge’s ruling overturned an earlier decision by French authorities that Halimi’s murder was not to be treated as a hate crime.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2018 19:07 UTC