Two presidents of the Ohr Torah university in Toulouse this Sunday to pay homage to the victims of Mohammed Merah. Emmanuel Macron and Israeli President Isaac Herzog will take part in the prepared ceremonies to the Jewish faculty then to the Halle aux Grainsten several years following the Toulouse and Montauban attacks.
In March 2012, the Islamist terrorist killed seven men and women in Toulouse and Montauban: the very first three troopers: Imad Ibn Ziaten, Abel Chennouf and Mohamed Legouad. Then a trainer and a few young children in entrance of a Jewish faculty: Jonathan Sandler, Gabriel Sandler, Arié Sandler and Myriam Monsonego.
The two first ladies, Brigitte Macron and Michal Herzog will also be existing
Commemoration arranged by the Agent Council of the Jewish Institutions of France for “to rejoice the friendship that binds France and Israel” et “the will of the two Heads of State to go on their typical battle in opposition to terrorism and anti-Semitism”in accordance to the Elysée.
Ahead of arriving in Toulouse, Emmanuel Macron and Isaac Herzog will meet in the early morning to communicate about diplomacy. At the end of the day a dinner will be arranged at the Elysée among the two presidents and their wives.
Bouquets in the university garden
Emmanuel Macron and Isaac Herzog will arrive at Ohr Torah College (previously Ozar Hatorah) at 3pm. They will lay a crown at the toes of the tree of Lifestyle, monument installed in the playground as a tribute to the victims. The two Heads of Condition will then have a instant of trade with Yaacov and Yaffa Monsonego, the faculty principal and his spouse, whose daughter Myriam was killed by the terrorist. Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande will also take part in this first emphasize.
A ceremony at the Halles aux Grains
The Heads of Point out will then go to the Halle aux Grains, exactly where a ceremony will just take spot in homage to the victims of the killings in Toulouse and Montauban. Initially there will be a round table on the values of the Republic in the presence of intellectuals this kind of as the writer Bernard-Henry Lévy, the political scientist Gilles Kepel or the journalist Caroline Fourest. There will be a musical and literary tribute: the texts will be read through by the family members and people of the victims. Isaac Herzog and Emmanuel Macron will then give speeches.
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