Follow the tribute to the victims of the Toulouse and Montauban attacks committed by Merah 10 years ago
Ceremonies in honor of seven victims murdered in March 2012 by the Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah take place this Sunday in Toulouse at the Jewish school Orh Torah and at the Halle aux Grains in the presence of Emmanuel Macron and the dismissed president Isaac Herzog. Between March 11 and March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah killed Imad Ibn Ziaten (30), near the Hers gymnasium in Toulouse. He assassinates two other soldiers, paratroopers in Montauban: Mohamed Legouad and Abel Chennouf. The radicalized young offender also opened fire in front of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse. A teacher, Jonathan Sandler (30 years old), his children Arié (six years old) and Gabriel (three and a half years old), and the daughter of the director of the establishment, Myriam Monsonego (eight and a half years old), are killed. The djiihadist was killed by the RAID on March 22, 2012 in his Toulouse apartment.
The essential
- Emmanuel Macron and his dismissed counterpart Isaac Herzog went to Toulouse this Sunday to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks perpetrated by Mohamed Merah, which left seven dead.
- Nearly 2,000 people are invited to these ceremonies organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France.
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Special broadcast on France Bleu Occitanie from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. to experience all the highlights of the ceremonies.
Follow the live
12 p.m. Welcome to this live. More than 2,000 people are expected this Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban perpetrated in March 2012 by the terrorist Mohammed Merah. Emmanuel Macron and Isaac Herzog, his award-winning counterpart, take part in these ceremonies organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif). The Head of State had accepted the invitation in a speech read during the Crif dinner at the end of February in Paris, calling for a “general mobilization of the whole society” to pay fight against anti-Semitismand promising to “continue the fight” “relentlessly”.
These commemorations have consequences on traffic and parking in Toulouse around the Ohr Torah school and the Halle aux Grains, the places where tribute ceremonies take place. The Haute-Garonne prefecture is setting up exclusion zones inside the the circulation of pedestrians and cars is prohibited from 12 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. in the Halle aux Grains sector and from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Ohr Torah school sector, in the Roseraie district.
Our essential testimonials
You can find these testimonials in the documentary event from France Bleu Occitanie: “Merah case: 12 days of horror”.