William Goldnadel, Knoll family’s lawyer welcomed the decision. ‘’Finally justice. And nothing else,” he wrote on Twitter. “We are facing a heinous crime committed against an old lady and, since she is Jewish, it was even better for her murderers,’’ he said.

Two men suspected of murdering Mireille Knoll, a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, in her Paris apartment in 2018 will stand trial over her death, the Paris prosecutor’s office said, confirming the antisemitic character of the murder.

Mireille Knoll was stabbed eleven times and her apartment was set on fire.

The indictments on three charges were confirmed on July 10 by the Examining Magistrates, the prosecutor’s office said.

The men are charged with “the murder of a vulnerable person committed because of the true or supposed victim’s religion,” as well as “aggravated theft” and “degradation by dangerous means to individuals,” the office said.

One suspect was Knoll’s neighbor, Yacine Mihoub, who was 27 at the time of the stabbing.

The second suspect was Alex Carrimbacus, a 24-year-old homeless man, who was 21 at the time of the killing.

The two men have continued throughout the investigation to reject responsibility for the crime,

A third person, the mother of Yacine Mihoub, has also been indicted in relation to the case, on a charge of “destroying a document or object relating to a crime or offense in order to prevent the truth from being established.” That person is under judicial supervision, the prosecutor’s office said.

William Goldnadel, Knoll family’s lawyer welcomed the decision. ‘’Finally justice. And nothing else,” he wrote on Twitter. “We are facing a heinous crime committed against an old lady and, since she is Jewish, it was even better for her murderers,’’ he said.

“We are very satisfied with the way things are going, with the fact that there will be a judgment, with the fact that the double aggravating circumstance of anti-Semitism has been retained, Alain Knoll, the victim’s son said.