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The Islamist terrorist had already killed three soldiers the previous week

Written by on February 1, 2023

Ten years ago, in March 2012, seven people including three children were shot dead by the Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah. This Sunday March 20, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), more than 2,000 people including Emmanuel Macron, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, took part in the ceremonies paying tribute to the victims aged 3 to 30 years.

Imad Ibn Ziaten, soldier in Toulouse; Abel Chennouf and Mohamed Legouad, parachutists in Montauban; Jonathan Sandler, a teacher at a Jewish school where his children Gabriel, 3, and Arieh, 5, were educated; Myriam Monsonego, 8, the daughter of the school principal. These seven faces are those of seven lives, mowed down in March 2012 by the Islamist terrorist Mohamed Merah.

Relatives and witnesses spoke
Sunday March 20, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), a ceremony paid tribute to the victims and allowed relatives to gather. The authorities wanted a ceremony open to the public. More than 2,000 people were able to attend. Relatives and witnesses spoke. Many of them were only children at the time, the victims were their classmates.

Merah case: a day of remembrance and meditation in tribute to the victims of the terrorist

Ten years after the attacks perpetrated by Mohammed Merah, a ceremony took place on Sunday March 20 in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), in tribute to the seven victims. The President of the Republic and his two predecessors, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, were present.

Emotion, mourning and a few piano notes, ten years later. In Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), Sunday March 20, in the courtyard of the Jewish school Hatorah which has become a sanctuary, dozens of former students and teachers gathered in the morning, in tribute to the victims. Emmanuel Macron and his Israeli counterpart made the trip. On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah murdered four people there, including three children. The Islamist terrorist had already killed three soldiers the previous week.

March 19, 2012, an indelible date
In the afternoon, 2,000 guests, including former presidents François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, gathered in a room to remember. At the podium, Samuel Sandler, whose son and two grandsons fell under the bullets, spoke: “Their absence haunts me.” To conclude the ceremony, the President of the Republic called for the country’s resilience in the face of anti-Semitism and barbarism. The date of March 19, 2012 is indelible for the people of Toulouse invited to the tribute. “It brings back terrible memories”, testifies, moved, a woman. The attacks in Toulouse and Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) marked the start of a series of terrorist attacks in France.

Attacks in Toulouse and Montauban: ten years later, France honors the victims of “barbarism”
Samuel Sandler, father and grandfather of Jonathan, Gabriel and Arie, killed in March 2012, notably spoke in front of some 200 people.

Ten years after the Mohamed Merah attacks which killed seven people, including Jewish children, Emmanuel Macron and Israeli President Isaac Herzog paid tribute on Sunday March 20 in Toulouse to the victims of “barbarism”.

On March 19, 2012, at the Jewish school Otzar Hatorah, renamed Ohr Torah, two children, Myriam Monsonego, 7, and Gabriel Sandler, 3, were shot dead at close range in the playground by Mohammed Merah, a delinquent. 23-year-old radicalized. A few seconds earlier, Arié Sandler, 6, and his father Jonathan Sandler had also succumbed to the bullets of the scooter killer.

He had started his murderous journey a week earlier to shoot down, in Toulouse then Montauban, three soldiers, Imad Ziaten, Abel Chennouf and Mohamed Legouad, and cause irreversible injuries to a fourth soldier, Loïc Liber, who had become a quadriplegic.

“Since this carnage, I live like a ghost”
Before the speech of the two presidents, Samuel Sandler, father and grandfather of Jonathan, Gabriel and Arie, killed in March 2012, spoke in front of some 200 people. “Since this carnage, I have been living under anesthesia, like a ghost. Their absence haunts me,” he said in front of an upset audience, believing that “the war” against his family, the Jews, “has never ceased. “.

Merah case: ten years after the killing, a tribute to the victims in Toulouse
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Denouncing “diabolical raids”, paying tribute to the victims one by one, Emmanuel Macron recalled that “that day, for the first time in France, a school was the battlefield of Islamist fundamentalism”. Beyond the “mown innocent lives”, it is an “entire country that was struck to the heart by destructive madness and betrayed religion”, he said.

These “pure and innocent children”, killed by “a vile assassin, full of burning hatred”, “God will avenge them”, underlined the Israeli president for his part. But, added Emmanuel Macron, “we are stronger than the terrorists, we are holding on, we have not lowered our heads, we have not lowered our arms” in the face of “this challenge of our generations to which we will not yield anything. “.

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