AKIPRESS.COM - Two suspects have been detained over the death of an 85-year old Holocaust survivor whose body was found with multiple stab wounds in her Parisian apartment, which had been set on fire, ABC News reported.

Mireille Knoll, a Jewish woman and survivor of the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup -- arrests made in 1942 of Jewish people in Paris by French police -- was found on March 23 in the 11th Arrondissement, East Paris, with 11 stab wounds according to an autopsy, French police said on Monday.

"A preliminary examination of the elements of the crime does not reveal an anti-Semitic characteristic, but this possibility has not been discounted as police investigate further,” a spokesperson for the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ), an organization that has close ties to the French police, said.

The Paris Prosecutors Office opened a formal investigation on Monday, with police sources telling France Info radio that a judicial investigation into the murder had been opened, "on the grounds, whether true or supposed, that the victim belonged to a religion."

The suspects, one 29-year old man believed to be Knoll’s neighbor, and the other a homeless man known to police, have been arrested but not charged, according to local French newspaper Le Parisian.

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drain, who is currently visiting Israel, said of the attack, “it reminds us of the fundamental and permanent side of this battle [referring to anti-Semitism]," after visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.