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6:47 p.m. : “We attacked those who, in the name of a distorted vision, attacked the principles, the values of the Republic to divide it, weaken it, justify it.
6:37 p.m. : “Together, we are determined to annihilate anti-Semitism, including that which hides under the mask of anti-Zionism.“, declares Emmanuel Macron at the podium, recalling the adoption by the deputies of the strictest definition of anti-Semitism, and the dissolution of various groups including “Palestine will win” in Toulouse.
6:27 p.m. : Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to the four military victims of Mohamed Merah, before evoking the killing in front of the Jewish school in Toulouse. “Four men targeted because they were not simply men, but because behind them France was taking shape. Because they had linked their destiny to hers, wore her colors, embodied her honor. On March 19, at the morning, horror attacked other faces, even those of the most helpless innocence and fragility. That day, for the first time in France, a school (…) became the battlefield of Islamist fanaticism.”
6:25 p.m. : “Ten years have passed. Ten years that will never make us forget this month of March 2012, when explosions of hatred and fire struck Montauban and Toulouse. Two just cities among nations.”
6:25 p.m. : The point on the news was surprised by the return of the ceremony of tribute to the victims of the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban (Emmanuel Macron was to speak at 5:30 p.m., theoretically…). So it’s 6 p.m. and briquettes, and here he is late:
Emmanuel Macron and Israeli President Isaac Herzog will speak at the ceremony honoring the victims of Mohamed Merah in a few minutes. To follow in this live.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon claims to have gathered 100,000 people at Place de la République to listen to him, three weeks before the first round of the presidential election. “This vote is a social referendum, because Mr. Macron has announced the color!”
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5:03 p.m. : Very moved to visit Ohr Torah in Toulouse, where a terrible massacre took place 10 years ago. With Presidents @EmmanuelMacron, @FHollande and @NicolasSarkozy, we comforted the director, Rav Monsonégo and his wife Yaffa, who lost their 8-year-old daughter Myriam.
5:02 p.m. : Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed on social networks his emotion after his visit to the Jewish school hit by terrorism ten years ago.
3:27 p.m. : Emmanuel Macron arrived in Toulouse for the commemorations of the attacks in Toulouse and Montauban. The President of the Republic found in front of the Ohr Torah school his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog and the former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande.
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Emmanuel Macron is in Toulouse for the ceremonies commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks perpetrated by Mohamed Merah which killed seven people, in the presence of the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, as well as François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. Follow our live.
2:22 p.m. : “Every drama that happens is scary, awakens pain and at the same time, I don’t give up because you have to work, you have to go towards this youth.”
Latifa Ibn Ziaten, president of the Imad Association for Youth and Peace and mother of Imad Ibn Ziaten, the first victim of Mohamed Merah, spoke on franceinfo while Emmanuel Macron went to Toulouse during the day for the ceremonies of commemoration, ten years after the events.