the Djerba synagogue attacked, a Frenchman killed

Louder and louder cries, then a movement of panic. The faithful seek to flee the synagogue, on the evening of Tuesday, May 9, but the safest thing is to hide. Shots just rang out outside the building. A devotee is filming upstairs in the middle of the party. The attack took place when the Jewish holiday was ending, in the Ghriba synagogue, in Djerba (Tunisia)Tuesday. According to the Tunisian authorities, it was a gendarme who hit the synagogue. He first killed a colleague, then went to about twenty kilometers away, where he opened the fhad approaching the roadblocks, killing two gendarmes and two faithful, including a Frenchman, before being shot.

From Marseilles

The French pilgrim, Benjamin Haddad, who died on Tuesday evening, ran a bakery in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). His cousin, present with him, was also killed. His neighbors learned the news with horror. Emmanuel Macron expressed France’s solidarity with the Tunisian people and the families of the victims. “Relentlessly, we will fight against anti-Semitic hatred“, did he declare.