PARIS — An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime.
The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city’s working-class 11th Arrondissement. She had been stabbed to death, and her body was partly burned after her attackers apparently tried to set fire to the apartment.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday that Ms. Knoll had been killed because of the “membership, real or supposed, of the victim of a particular religion” — a roundabout way of saying she was killed because she was Jewish.
Ms. Knoll was a child in Paris when, in the summer of 1942, the French police, cooperating with the Germans, rounded up thousands of the city’s Jews, stuffing them into a cycling stadium, the Vélodrome d’Hiver. Virtually all were subsequently murdered at Auschwitz.
Dear Emma and David: Just a reminder that the same people who are banking you and providing additional support are the same ones that support the group of assholes that committed this heinous act.
The 400,000-strong Jewish population in Paris has been the target of a series of Islamist attacks. In 2015, 250 Jewish tombstones in eastern France were vandalized just days after four Jews were killed in an attack on a kosher grocery in Paris.
Never Again for you and your cadre is a cute and catchy hashtag to be stamped in every social media conduit. For the millions that know a tad of history, it is a reminder of the cruelty that comes when a population is unarmed and left to the whims of an unchecked government.
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack.
Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA.
I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed.
I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
The support for them certainly comes in part from Soros, who not only backs THIS kind of atrocity, but took part — “the happiest time of [his] life” — in rounding up Jews to be murdered.
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Horrible.
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There’s a reason why Jews are fleeing Europe in general, and France in particular.
The support for them certainly comes in part from Soros, who not only backs THIS kind of atrocity, but took part — “the happiest time of [his] life” — in rounding up Jews to be murdered.
Horrible.
There’s a reason why Jews are fleeing Europe in general, and France in particular.