The Jewish community is shocked at the murder of four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, the SA Jewish Board of Deputies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“This tragedy has demonstrated how frighteningly vulnerable innocent people can be when pitiless killers driven by irrational hatred target them for attack,” national chairwoman Mary Kluk said.<\/p>\n
In a statement, she called the murder on Monday of a rabbi, his two sons, aged five and four, and a young girl, aged seven, cold-blooded.<\/p>\n
Kluk extended the Jewish community’s heartfelt sympathy to the affected families and to the French Jewish community.<\/p>\n
“We commend the French government for the seriousness with which they are responding to this atrocity and hope that the perpetrator will soon be brought to justice.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that authorities did not know the identity or motivations of the killer.<\/p>\n
“Anti-Semitism is obvious. The Jewish school attack was an anti-Semitic crime,” he told reporters in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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