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Murder In rrance
Four are slain in vicious attack
at Jewish school.
JTA and News Agencies
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n the wake of a gunman shooting
four people — a teacher and three
students — outside a Jewish school in
Toulouse, France, on Monday, security has
been tightened around all Jewish schools
in that country, officials said.
Locally, there is no current threat, says
Betsy Kellman, regional director of the
Southfield-based Michigan Region Anti-
Defamation League. The ADL did send out
a security bulletin to 130 organizations
and will be holding a security workshop
April 24 for local organizations.
"There is a step up in security because
people are worried about the situation in
the Middle East and the possible repercus-
sions stateside,' she said.
On Monday, a man riding a motorbike
reportedly opened fire outside the Ozar
Hatorah School, where students were wait-
ing to enter the building at the start of
the school day. The shooter then entered
the building and continued shooting at
students and teachers before fleeing on
his motorbike. Several students also were
injured inside the building, according to
reports.
The victims were named as Yonatan
Sandler, 30, from the Kiryat Yovel neigh-
borhood of Jerusalem, along with his two
sons Aryeh, 3, and Gavriel Yissacher, 6,
as well as the 8-year-old daughter of the
school's principal, Miriam Monsonego.
They will be buried in Israel.
Sharon Lipton, president, Jewish
Community Relations Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, said, "With tears
in our eyes, Detroit's Jewish community
today reaches out in support to our broth-
ers and sisters in France who now must
bury the children and loving father who
were murdered in a barbarous attack.
"This horrific incident shows where
anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred
can lead and the depths of depravity and
hatred that threaten Jewish communities."
Yonatan Sandler, 30, with his two sons, Aryeh and Gavriel were murdered in
France. At the right are his wife and daughter.
Worldwide, Jewish organizations issued
similar statements, standing in solidarity
with the French Jewish community and
demanding the killer be brought to justice.
"We are horrified by this attack, and we
trust the French authorities to shed full
light on this tragedy and bring the perpe-
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Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal
Palmor.
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant
said Tuesday that the gunman may have
filmed the attack. Gueant said the attacker
was wearing on his bloody chest a kind
of filming apparatus." He said French
authorities are combing the Internet to see
if the killer posted a video online, but have
not yet found any traces.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy trav-
eled toToulouse and called the attack a
"national tragedy" and vowed to find the
killer.
The attack followed the fatal shootings
of three off-duty soldiers in and near
Toulouse by a gunman on a motorbike
over the past week. It was not known if the
attacks were connected, but all the victims
in the shootings were members of minor-
ity groups. Police have so far not ascribed
a motive to the killer or released specific
information on his or her identity.
According to a report, suspects are
former French paratroopers who were dis-
missed over suspicion of being neo-Nazis
in 2008. This has not yet been confirmed,
according to the Jerusalem Post. Li
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