Emmanuel Macron honored the memory of the seven deaths of March 2012, Sunday, alongside Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and the Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
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An Emmanuel Macron President of the Republic but also candidate for his re-election participated in the sides of his predecessors François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, Sunday, March 20, at the tribute ceremony to the victims of Mohammed Merah organized by the representative Council of Jewish institutions of France (CRIF) in Toulouse.
Toulouse. March 19, 2012. Mohammed Merah stands in front of the Jewish School Ozar-Hatorah, renamed from Ohr-Torah. It is a little less than 8 hours. The children hurry at the entrance when he puts himself in front of the Jonathan Sandler portal, a college-high school teacher, and his son Aribe, 6 years old. Merah enters the yard, pursues and killed Gabriel, the 3 year old brother, 3 years old, then pulls a bullet into a girl, Myriam Monsonégo, “Myriami”, 8 years old.
In his deadly epic in Toulouse and Montauban, initiated on March 11, the Islamist terrorist will have decimated a total of seven people including three soldiers, IMAD Ibn Ziaten, slaughtered at the end bearing after refusing to set up, as well as Mohamed Farah Legouad and Abel Chennouf, all members of 17 e Parachutist Regiment. After his crimes against those he describes “Western disbelievers”, he screams “Allahou Akbar” (Allah is great).
Ten years ago, the election campaign, which would bring to the power the Socialist candidate François Hollande, interrupted himself for the mourning of this anti-Semite massacre. The country froze, stunned. Ecracked by a sorrow made more ripping again by the details of the killing, as this pacifier that Gabriel still had in the mouth or dance slippers that Myriami had made falling stumbling on his binder.
In ten years, the drama of Toulouse has erected in symbol. That of the “existential” fight, according to the words of Emmanuel Macron, that each head of state must fight against terrorism, anti-Semitism and radical Islamism. Because Mohammed Merah opened “the first page of what was going to happen then,” said François Hollande, evoking the attacks of Charlie Hebdo, then from Paris and Saint-Denis in 2015.
“The first page of what was going to happen then “
After the upsetting messages of the relatives of the victims; After the emotion of Samuel Sandler, Jonathan’s grandfather and Father of Aié and Gabriel, who has become, in his eyes, “his own ghost”; After the finding of Ness, a student of the confident school having since March 2012, given his innocence and that of his comrades “flying”, came the time of politics.
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