Toulouse on Wednesday commemorated the 13th anniversary of the 2012 Jewish school massacre and shootings that claimed the lives of three children, a teacher, and three French soldiers.The ceremony was attended by Jewish community and French political leaders, including Occitanie region president Carole Delga, Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc, and Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) President Yonathan Arfi, according to a CRIF statement.Arfi and CRIF Toulouse-Occitanie President Franck Touboul visited the Ozar Hatorah Jewish School and met with the school principal Yaacov Monsonégo, whose daughter was murdered in the attack.
Seven-year-old Myriam Monsonégo, brothers Arié and Gabriel Sandler, 6 and 3, and their father Jonathan Sandler, were brutally murdered at close range by an Islamic terrorist of Algerian descent.
“They were killed for being Jewish,” counter-antisemitism group Collectif Nous Vivrons said on X/Twitter on Wednesday. “We will never forget.”
Details of the attack
The terrorist had killed soldiers Mohamed Legouad, 25, and Abel Chennouf, 23, in a Montauban attack four days before the Toulouse massacre. According to CRIF and Delga, Corporal Loic Liber was seriously wounded and was left quadriplegic.Sergeant Major Imad Ibn Ziaten was murdered by the terrorist on March 11, 2012, and found shot dead behind a school in Toulouse.On X, Delga swore never to forget their faces and promised that France would never yield to religious extremism, antisemitism, or racism.Moudenc said on social media that as their hearts turned to the victims of the massacres, it was important to recommit to fighting antisemitism, including radicals emboldened by the far-left.