Thursday, October 28, the son of the victim, murdered in 2018, told the story of his mother, who narrowly escaped the roundup of the Vel d’Hiv, but continued to see “life pink. “
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Daniel Knoll speaks without losing his calm, nor the tone a bit monotone raises his story. Glasses on his nose, gray hair, slightly curved shape, here, Thursday, October 28, at the bar of the Assize Court of Paris, who judge, since October 26, the murderers of his mother. Mireille Knoll was killed March 23, 2018, she was 85 years old. That night, Daniel was dining in a restaurant with friends when his phone rang to warn that a fire destroyed the apartment of his mother on the second floor of 30 Avenue Philippe-Auguste in the 11 th district of the capital.
The two accused, Yacine Mihoub Carrimbacus and Alex are sitting in the box, four or five meters away from him on his left eye to nowhere. “I still do not understand why these people – these monsters, he repeated several times – could kill the angel.” And, ignoring his emotion, he refers Yacine: “She received this sir, neighbor in her home in his head how he was able to design such a brutal murder? “
Daniel Knoll hope that both accused finally tell the truth. “If at the end of this trial, we still do not know the truth, we will leave one day and we will miss something.” Who did what? Who stabbed eleven times his mother? Mr. Knoll, who suffers from cancer recurrence since the death of his mother, afraid to die without knowing. “They have to tell us the truth,” he urges. Not sure they will be ready. Asked at the hearing on a knife found at the home of his brother, who could be the murder weapon, Yacine this answer: “You know, when I Alcoholic, I do things …”
“She did not listen to us”
Mireille Knoll was born in Paris in 1932. The daughter of a tailor father came from Ukraine and a Polish mother arrived who were either fled the pogroms in the early twentieth th century, she grew up in the Marais district. In July 1942, on the eve of the roundup of the Vel d’Hiv, which she narrowly escaped, she and her mother leave the South to join his brother and father. After a stopover in Lisbon, the family sailed to Canada, where she moved to the end of the war.
Mireille returned to France after the Liberation. At 16, she met Kurt Knoll, an Austrian Jew, a survivor of Auschwitz. She married in 1951. After another stay in Canada, the Knoll return to Paris. In 1955, they move at 36, avenue Philippe-Auguste, where they live a few years before moving with their two boys, at 30, in a council flat in the City. Kurt made the wine trade. He often travels in Germany. Mireille remains in Paris with the boys. “My father gently away from my mother when he was in Germany,” says Daniel. The couple eventually divorced – “without drama,” he says – and Mireille will be some love stories, including one last evening of her life with a man who died a year before it
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