by Eve Gani
Columnist Eve Gani has
described how French Jews and Muslims did come together to mourn in the
aftermath of Toulouse killing in the following words:
French Jews and
Muslims have come together to mourn, breaking easy links between their people
and Israeli policies or Jihadism
We were in a state of shock that Monday, early
in the morning, when we discovered that our children's lives had been snatched
by a cold-hearted killer who had poured his hate and his bullets into the heart
of a Jewish school.
Then the anguish came, with all the questions
that followed about who the killer was and the possibility he might kill again.
Given who the victims were – Muslims in Montauban, Jews in Toulouse – we
realised very quickly there was a message of racist, anti-Semitic hate, but
also, because of the two institutions that were hit, the army on the one hand,
the school on the other, it was clear that these were also attacks on the
institutions and symbols of the republic.
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