“France will never let anti-Semitism pass”, assures Pécresse in Toulouse
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Toulouse (AFP)- Valérie Pécresse assured that France “will never let anti-Semitism pass”, Friday during a visit to Toulouse, ten years after the attacks perpetrated by Mohamed Merah which had killed seven people.
Visiting the Ohr Torah school (formerly Otzar Hatorah school) where four people, including three children, had been shot dead, presidential candidate LR laid a wreath at the foot of the “Tree of Life”, a monument in tribute to the victims, where she meditated for a long time.
“Whoever committed this barbaric attack wanted to attack the Jews of France and, through them, France, because when you kill a Jew from France, a Jewish child, you are attacking France. attack,” she said during a press briefing.
But “from this tragedy came love,” she assured.
“On Sunday, all of France will also transmit this enormous message of love. France is fraternity, humanity, France is always standing and will never let anti-Semitism pass,” said hammered Ms. Pécresse, two days before the official commemorations of these attacks reported in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande.
“As you have not given up, no one has dared to give up,” she said during a meeting with teachers, students and former school.
Between March 11 and 19, 2012, Mohamed Merah murdered with a handgun three Jewish soldiers, three children and a teacher in Toulouse and Montauban. On March 22, he was killed by the police in his apartment during an assault.
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