Hirom

Hirom, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

There’s little doubt of the attacker motive given he invoked his god, and given the timing. But nothing suggest the teacher was personally targeted for his faith. He may have been the first person the attacker ran into.

There have been a few articles about Dominique Bernard, the teacher who fell victim. AFP/Sud Ouest talk about his professional life and character. France Bleu says students like him, and that he interposed himself between the attacker and others. Neither suggest he was targeted for his faith, or even mention his faith at all.

Update: La Croix/AFP quote a few people who knew the victim, speaking highly of him, and say the victim is member of a familiy of “enlightened Catholics”

Hirom, 1 year ago

I only mentioned his familiy’s faith because you mentioned it. This murder is front page news and talked at length by medias, but your comment is the first time I heard of his supposed faith, so I went and checked.

It would be interesting to understand the motivation. This might be an attack on the school as an institution, which affects people of all faith.

There’s no justification for killing innocent civilians, Jewish or not.