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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 school principal’s daughter. These seven faces are those of seven lives, mowed down in March 2012 by the Islamist terrorist Mohamed Merah.
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.