Mireille Knoll was an elderly French Jewish woman who was bestially slaughtered last month by two young men, one of whom cried “Allahu Akhbar” during the act. The video below shows excerpts from a television interview with Ms. Knoll’s two sons. This was the first time the Islamic nature of her murder was publicly revealed.
Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Oz-Rita has also written about Mireille Knoll at her blog.
Video transcript (times based on two originally separate clips):
| 00:00 | Thank you for being with us both together, the two brothers | |
| 00:04 | for the first time, to remember Mireille Knoll, | |
| 00:08 | your mother. Hello Daniel Knoll, hello Alain Knoll. | |
| 00:12 | It was two weeks ago to the day, | |
| 00:16 | and France is in shock, she is still traumatized, | |
| 00:20 | and you, I do not ask you the question… | |
| 00:24 | You manage to sleep? —The nights are long… impossible to sleep, | |
| 00:28 | or just a few hours, | |
| 00:33 | but it is terrible, because | |
| 00:37 | all these events have | |
| 00:41 | upset our rhythm of life… | |
| 00:45 | our life… and… —You see your mother, | |
| 00:49 | especially given that you were the last to see her? —Yes, and when I close my eyes | |
| 00:53 | I see her face, I see her gaze, and | |
| 00:57 | it disturbs me a lot… —And you saw her | |
| 01:01 | two hours before the assassination… —Yes. The neighborhood and the HLM building | |
| 01:05 | (Housing Commission) in which your mother lived for more than 50 years is still in shock | |
| 01:10 | and receives marks of respect and messages | |
| 01:14 | from all over the world, and people write to you, saying | |
| 01:18 | “we are all Knolls”. —Absolutely, it is | |
| 01:22 | incredible and surprising, | |
| 01:26 | and it goes in the right direction, since we indeed | |
| 01:30 | have contacts now | |
| 01:34 | with the whole world, including Tunisian friends, | |
| 01:38 | including Qatar and including Brazil. | |
| 01:43 | So the emotions remain very strong, very intense, | |
| 01:47 | and not only in the neighborhood where you too lived, grew up | |
| 01:51 | and saw the evolution. Did your mother have any fears | |
| 01:55 | about the evolution of the neighborhood? —No, | |
| 01:59 | no, because my mother was very, very | |
| 02:03 | open to everyone, of course the neighbors | |
| 02:08 | have changed in 40 years; it’s not | |
| 02:12 | the same population any longer, but my mother welcomed everyone | |
| 02:16 | with pleasure and kindness. She has been described as | |
| 02:20 | a cheerful, generous woman, perhaps a little too much, and sometimes even candid. | |
| 02:24 | Very candid, very candid. But in any case, | |
| 02:28 | she knew where she came from, what she had escaped from: the Raffle of the Vel d’Hiv. | |
| 02:32 | In Drancy, Auschwitz, she wore the Yellow Star of the Vel d’Hiv | |
| 02:37 | when she was nine years old. She survived the war; she survived | |
| 02:41 | the Nazis; this was part of her memory. Did she talk about it with her | |
| 02:45 | sons or her grandchildren? She was | |
| 02:49 | very discreet, a little less than my father, | |
| 02:53 | but still very discreet, and there | |
| 02:57 | was a phenomenon, less than a year ago, where | |
| 03:02 | my daughter, my young daughter told me: | |
| 03:06 | “Dad, we know nothing about our history,” and so I | |
| 03:10 | interviewed my mother and asked her to tell | |
| 03:14 | some of her story, which allowed me to learn a lot about her, | |
| 03:18 | and in particular the difficulties she had when she was a child, | |
| 03:22 | and she told us some anecdotes about | |
| 03:26 | what happened back in 1940… | |
| 03:31 | If I may, I will relate one where, | |
| 03:35 | in the schoolyard, there was a girl who called her a “dirty Jew”. | |
| 03:39 | My mother lived in an atheist family. My grandfather, | |
| 03:43 | although Jewish, was not practicing, and was | |
| 03:47 | an atheist, so she fought with this young girl not because of | |
| 03:51 | the word “Jew” because she did not know what it was, but because she was told that | |
| 03:56 | she was dirty, and you have to know that they were extremely clean, | |
| 04:00 | they had a bathtub, when at that time this did not exist. | |
| 04:04 | Alain: at Les Invalides you heard President Emmanuel Macron | |
| 04:08 | honour two heroes, two victims of terrorist acts: | |
| 04:12 | Mireille Knoll, your mother, and Colonel Arnaud Beltrame. | |
| 04:16 | Is it true you knew him? —Yes, that’s correct. It’s an extraordinary | |
| 04:20 | coincidence. —How did you know him? —Because we frequent | |
| 04:24 | the same places of reflection. —What do you mean? | |
| 04:29 | You spoke, you saw each other… it seems we must not say, “We were in the same Lodge…” | |
| 04:33 | No, not in the same Lodge, but | |
| 04:37 | in the same obedience and our paths crossed. | |
| 04:41 | That means that on the same day you heard a tribute | |
| 04:45 | to your mother and to a brother, if I may say so. That’s right. And | |
| 04:49 | Emmanuel Macron attended your mother’s funeral at the Bagneux cemetery. | |
| 04:54 | You were touched to see him by your side. | |
| 04:58 | Yes, I received a call during the night from the | |
| 05:02 | Élysée, asking us if | |
| 05:06 | we would accept the presence of the President of the Republic. | |
| 05:10 | Obviously I agreed. We were asked for the greatest discretion. | |
| 05:14 | …Of course… there were some scarce photos, | |
| 05:18 | and we saw that he took you in turn into his arms, and to each of you | |
| 05:22 | he entrusted a word… yes… —Like a | |
| 05:26 | whispered promise… That’s it… —Which was? | |
| 05:31 | “This sacrifice will not be in vain.” | |
| 05:35 | It was at the same time a commitment. —Yes. | |
| 05:39 | We were very moved | |
| 05:43 | by the words of the President of the Republic… meaning a will to | |
| 05:47 | to protect all communities, and firstly the Jewish community, | |
| 05:51 | which is attacked, etc. At Les Invalides | |
| 05:55 | the President paid tribute to both the Colonel and | |
| 06:00 | your mother, “assassinated,” he said so himself “because Jewish”. Let’s listen to this sentence: | |
| 06:04 | The camp of freedom, that of France, | |
| 06:08 | is today confronted with a barbaric obscurantism | |
| 06:12 | whose only program is the elimination of our freedoms and our solidarities. | |
| 06:16 | The religious assets they dress in are | |
| 06:20 | empty of all spirituality and the very negation of | |
| 06:25 | the spirit, because they deny the value we give to | |
| 06:29 | life, a value denied by the terrorist of | |
| 06:33 | Trèbes, a value denied by the murderer of Mireille Knoll, | |
| 06:37 | who murdered an innocent and vulnerable woman because she was Jewish, | |
| 06:41 | and who thus desecrated our sacred values and our memory… | |
| 06:45 | The President of the Republic said it, and the public prosecutor very quickly affirmed | |
| 06:49 | the anti-Semitic character [of the attack] to open a criminal investigation. For you there is no doubt, | |
| 06:54 | Daniel? —As soon as the prosecution recognizes this, | |
| 06:58 | there is no doubt. —Yes, and “Yassine”, | |
| 07:02 | your mother was said to have known him since he was seven years old, is that true? | |
| 07:06 | Absolutely. —Did you ever see him?… —Never. | |
| 07:10 | Did you know he existed? —We knew his name, but we’d never seen him before. | |
| 07:14 | She received him at home? —Yes, absolutely. —She never feared him? | |
| 07:18 | No, never. —And the last afternoon | |
| 07:22 | he was there… —Yes, he was there in the morning. | |
| 07:26 | It was my sister-in-law who found him with my mother, | |
| 07:31 | when she arrived later in the morning on her way back from | |
| 07:35 | shopping she had done for her… —It seems they were both drinking port… | |
| 07:39 | No — He alone was drinking; my mother would not drink port in the morning… | |
| 07:43 | For you it was a premeditated act? —Absolutely; | |
| 07:47 | you don’t arrive with a dagger at an elderly lady’s home | |
| 07:51 | if it is not… | |
| 07:55 | with premeditation… —And yet this Yassine knew who your mother was… | |
| 08:00 | her origins, her history, he saw her living in an HLM; how could he imagine | |
| 08:04 | that she was rich, why this obsession with wealth? | |
| 08:08 | There we fall into the murderous madness | |
| 08:12 | of many people who think that Jews are | |
| 08:16 | automatically rich. We saw this with Ilan Halimi, we | |
| 08:20 | knew that with others… —Unfortunately this is a | |
| 08:24 | belief that some people have who are | |
| 08:28 | completely stupid, and that we must fight… of course. And the other, the accomplice, | |
| 08:32 | it seems that the police know his profile best. What was his story? | |
| 08:37 | So he, he is multiple recidivist, | |
| 08:41 | we just learned, and extremely dangerous, and | |
| 08:45 | it is incomprehensible that this man is at liberty, | |
| 08:49 | and the two met and — it seems — associated with each other in prison… in prison | |
| 08:53 | where they could very well have been radicalized. —And which one | |
| 08:57 | of the two, even if it’s painful to ask, which one inflicted the eleven stab wounds? | |
| 09:01 | They blame each other… | |
| 09:06 | err… . well… . one said… | |
| 09:10 | (stumbles before describing the massacre:) | |
| 09:14 | My mother had her throat slit, [was] stabbed multiple times, | |
| 09:18 | and [was] then set alight to the shouts of … | |
| 09:22 | “Allahu Akhbar”. —I see you have trouble saying it… | |
| 09:26 | I pass… | |
| 00:00 | …and today, Alain, do you advise | |
| 00:04 | French Jews not to stay in France, to leave for | |
| 00:08 | Israel, or to stay here and fight if you have to fight? | |
| 00:12 | I would not propose to a Frenchman that he leave France. | |
| 00:16 | We are of French nationality; we are rooted in this | |
| 00:20 | country, which we love, and it is out of the question to confuse | |
| 00:24 | nationality and religion; | |
| 00:28 | they are two completely different things. It’s your mother’s spirit | |
| 00:33 | that has remained? —Yes, it is our spirit. And Daniel, | |
| 00:37 | if I may ask you? —I do not entirely share | |
| 00:41 | what my brother says; that is to say, I think | |
| 00:45 | that, unfortunately, the future of the Jews | |
| 00:49 | in Europe is in danger, and that therefore | |
| 00:53 | it is necessary to prepare effectively, either aliyah to Israel | |
| 00:58 | or departure to other continents. —I see you disagree | |
| 01:02 | sometimes. —Yes, but not in conflict… |
The police knew. The State knew. And the toy-boy Macron who enables the destruction of the French people is aware as well. Macron is an amazing piece of scum elected by an amazingly ignorant and complicit electorate. I would advise all Jews to leave France.
The word Islam is never mentioned in the conversation…. I sense PC is the obvious reason why the word is not mentioned and islamic doctrine is the reason why the murderers went after Mrs Knolls…They claim it was theft…the duo thought she was rich because they think every jew is rich…yet they screamed alahu akbar which is the call to jihad by the muslims…I hate PC , it doesn’t allow the truth to be said. May this sweet old lady RIP. I imagine her terror, so frail and old being attacked by two young rabid beasts…
I swear. It’s like banging one’s head against the wall.
Make aliyah. If you own [supposedly] loving sons won’t take you out of a violent Muslim ghetto housing project and take care of you, then contact the Israeli Embassy and make your own arrangements to emigrate.
Israel keeps telling you this, over and over and over and over. Why won’t you listen?
They’re going to get cases like this as long as they flood the country with low-quality, third world scum. The interview emphasized the paradox that the attacker knew Ms. Knoll a good part of his life, and still thought she had a hidden treasure he could steal. But, it’s no mystery: he simply didn’t have the intelligence to draw a conclusion from his everyday experiences with Ms. Knoll. Islam, of course, provides a guiding view for the sociopath retards of the third world, but their core criminality and irrationality is there regardless.
There’s nothing hidden about the situation, although the media is not allowed to explicitly bring it up. As long as they have open or massive immigration, they’ll be flooded with cases like this. The French President won’t have time to attend all the funerals and inquests, so the ones he does go to will be carefully selected to enhance his image as a sympathetic representative of the French citizen.