The two suspects entered the apartment and reportedly stabbed Knoll eleven times, before setting her on fire.

[5] The Paris prosecutor’s office characterized the 23 March murder as a hate crime, a murder committed because of the “membership, real or supposed, of the victim of a particular religion.” The New York Times noted, "The speed with which the authorities recognized the hate-crime nature of Ms. Knoll’s murder is being seen as a reaction to the anger of France’s Jews at the official response to that earlier crime, which prosecutors took months to characterize as anti-Semitic.

Carrimbacus was acquitted of murder but found guilty of theft with antisemitic motives, for which he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

[11][12] The funeral procession, held on 28 March, drew thousands of mourners who walked solemnly through the streets of Paris.

[13] They walked from the Place de la Nation to Knoll's apartment building in the 11th arrondissement.