A burka really is a convenient accessory for committing a crime. And this latest attack allegedly took place in the same French city as the worst Islamic anti-Semitic atrocity in a decade.
A veiled woman along with two younger women assaulted a Jewish woman and her teenage son in a supermarket near Toulouse, a watchdog on antisemitism said.
The incident occurred on Tuesday in Carcassonne, a town situated 55 miles southeast of Toulouse, the National Bureau for Vigilance against Antisemitism, or BNVCA, reported Friday. The watchdog characterized the incident as an antisemitic assault.
The alleged perpetrators — which BNVCA wrote may have been a mother and her daughters — saw that the victim, a woman in her 40s, was Jewish because she was wearing a Star of David pendant, the group wrote in an incident report.
If this had happened to a Muslim, it would be front page news around the world. When a Muslim woman was merely denied a diet coke on a plane, it became national news. But anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims never matter. While a Muslim woman deprived of her diet coke was front page news, the Toulouse anti-Semitic atrocitywas already forgotten.
Witnesses described how the gunman aimed at whoever was in his path, first shooting Jonathan Sandler, 30, a rabbi and teacher, along with his two sons, Aryeh, six, and Gavriel, three, as they waited for a minibus to take them to their nursery. All three are dead.
Then, when his 9mm weapon jammed, the killer switched to a .45-calibre gun, entered the school gates and chased children as they fled for cover.
Eight-year-old Myriam Monsonego clutched her satchel as the killer chased her through the school gates and into the courtyard. He pulled her towards him by her hair and raised a gun to shoot her.
The video footage appears to show that, at that moment, his gun jammed.
But determined to carry out his killing spree, he kept hold of the girl, changed weapons from what police identified as a 9-mm pistol to a .45 calibre weapon, and delivered a shot to her temple at point blank range.
The girl, Miriam Monsonego, died in her father’s arms as medics tried to resuscitate her.
The Muslim monster who did this, Mohammed Merah, is a hero to Muslim settlers in France.
There was another recent Muslim attack in Toulouse.
Abdellah B, a 28-year-old, rammed a Renault Clio into three students at the IGS campus, in a suburb of Toulouse. The victims are Chinese students in their early 20s. Two women and one man.
"When he was arrested, he told the police, 'I am on a mission,'" one of our sources said. The prosecutor's office of Toulouse also specifies that he said he planned his attack "for a month".
This is why France is in a permanent state of emergency. And Jews are the canary in the coal mine.