PARIS – The first anniversary of the attacks in Toulouse during which a young
Franco-Algerian Islamist murdered three soldiers, three Jewish children and the
father of two of them, was marked by an evening of programs on Wednesday on the
France 3 television channel.
The evening consisted of a documentary
followed by a debate, then a second documentary. The first documentary, titled
The Merah affair – The itinerary of a killer was transmitted during primetime
television at 8:45 p.m. The documentary’s director, Jean-Charles Doria,
explained to the viewers during the following debate that he devoted eight
months to the tracing the details of the terrorist’s actions and movements: “We
had to reconstruct the crime as we were not allowed to transmit Merah’s own
video so as to respect the sensibilities and feelings of the victims’
families.”
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