(New York Times) Adam Nossiter - Mireille Knoll, 85, who as a child narrowly escaped France's wartime roundup of Jews, was murdered in Paris last week in what authorities are calling a hate crime. Her body was found on Friday in her apartment. She had been stabbed 11 times, and her body was partly burned after her attackers set fire to the apartment. By Monday, two men in their 20s had been arrested, one a neighbor who knew her well. The principal suspect was of North African origin. Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said that "to attack a Jew is to attack France, and the values that are the very basis of the nation."
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