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  • Meyer Habib looks on during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on November 15, 2017.
    Meyer Habib looks on during a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris on November 15, 2017.
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    Meyer Habib

    Bibi’s man in Paris may be the best friend that French Jews have. But is he a model for the future or a herald of the end?

    byMarc Weitzmann
  • A TV grab released by French TV France 2 shows an image of 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent Mohamed Merah, suspected of a series of deadly shootings in Toulouse and Montauban which killed seven persons, including three children.
    A TV grab released by French TV France 2 shows an image of 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent Mohamed Merah, suspected of a series of deadly shootings in Toulouse and Montauban which killed seven persons, including three children.
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    France’s Fatal Failure to Stop Mohamed Merah’s Killing Spree

    From the Interior Ministry to the anti-terror police to social services and the state’s inability to connect anti-Semitism to violent Islamism, a textbook case of everything that has gone wrong in France over the past decade

    byMarc Weitzmann
  • A picture taken on October 2, 2017 in Paris shows the empty court room at Paris courthouse before the opening of the trial of Abdelkader Merah who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings commited by his jihadist brother Mohamed Merah in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012, in which three children and a teacher were killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse. The trial of Abdelkader Merah begins in Paris on October 2, 2017 who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings commited by his jihadist brother Mohamed Merah in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012, in which three children and a teacher were killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse, as well as three French paratroopers in two other attacks, before being killed himself on March 22 following a 32-hour police siege at his flat.
    A picture taken on October 2, 2017 in Paris shows the empty court room at Paris courthouse before the opening of the trial of Abdelkader Merah who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings commited by his jihadist brother Mohamed Merah in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012, in which three children and a teacher were killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse. The trial of Abdelkader Merah begins in Paris on October 2, 2017 who stands accused of complicity in the series of shootings commited by his jihadist brother Mohamed Merah in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012, in which three children and a teacher were killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse, as well as three French paratroopers in two other attacks, before being killed himself on March 22 following a 32-hour police siege at his flat.
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    The Merah Family’s Islamist Insanity

    Inside a French courtroom where Muslim victims are shamefully abandoned by the French state, the French left, and their own community

    byMarc Weitzmann
  • Witnesses cover their face as they arrive for the trial of a jihadist cell known as the 'Cannes-Torcy cell', long considered one of the most dangerous in France, on April 20, 2017 before a Special Court of Assizes at the Paris courthouse. Twenty people are facing trial, including three in abstentia, for a 2012 attack on a Kosher grocery store in 2012, also for planning to attack soldiers, and for planned departures in Syria.
    Witnesses cover their face as they arrive for the trial of a jihadist cell known as the 'Cannes-Torcy cell', long considered one of the most dangerous in France, on April 20, 2017 before a Special Court of Assizes at the Paris courthouse. Twenty people are facing trial, including three in abstentia, for a 2012 attack on a Kosher grocery store in 2012, also for planning to attack soldiers, and for planned departures in Syria.
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    Nothing to Connect Them Except Hatred: The Torcy-Cannes Gang and the Problem of Anti-Semitic Islamist Violence in France

    Who are these violent young men who seem so angry at the world?

    byMarc Weitzmann
  • Mohamed Merah, in a screen capture from French television France 2, March 2012.(Photoillustration byErik Mace for Tablet Magazine. Original photo: AFP/Getty Images)
    Mohamed Merah, in a screen capture from French television France 2, March 2012.(Photoillustration byErik Mace for Tablet Magazine. Original photo: AFP/Getty Images)
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    ‘In the Beginning, the Brothers, They Told Me To Kill’

    How did Mohamed Merah happen? In the third of a five-part series on anti-Semitism in France, the roots of the Toulouse gunman.

    byMarc Weitzmann
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