A French court has sentenced the killer of elderly Jewish woman Mireille Knoll to life behind bars, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, reports RFI.
Yacine Mihoub, 32, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for the murder of 85-year-old Mireille Knoll.
Alex Carrimbacus, 25, an accomplice, was acquitted of murder but found guilty of theft and sentenced to 15 years in jail.
Judges said it was a hate crime motivated by the fact Knoll was Jewish.
Mireille Knoll's partly burned body was found in her Paris flat in March 2018. She had been robbed and stabbed 11 times and her attackers had set her home alight.
Her murder, which came shortly after that of another Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, caused an outcry over anti-Semitism in France.