Two events, one happy, the other appalling, last week relegated the rest of the news to the background. First the happy news of the miracle of these four Colombian children who managed to survive in the jungle for forty days, an almost unimaginable feat when you know the dangers that haunt this forest. But it was of course the stabbing of four children, including a twenty-two-month-old baby in his cradle (!), by a 31-year-old Syrian, that shocked the entire France. The country had already been shaken by the murder of a little girl perpetrated by Mohamed Merah in a Jewish school in March 2012. This assassination was of unspeakable ignominy, it was no longer imagined that anti-Semitic hatred could still lead to such horrors today, but alas, we knew precedents and we could at least identify the enemy.
The assault committed in Annecy last week is of such a senseless, meaningless nature that it leaves ...
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