Two days after heavily armed gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo,two gunmen took hostages at a kosher supermarket in a Paris, killing at least four people. Police killed one of the gunmen, or who was suspected in yesterday’s murder of a police officer and reportedly affiliated with the gunmen behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre,Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, who were also killed in a shootout with police Friday.
The deadly siege on the kosher supermarket, and which occurred on a Friday afternoon,when Jewish shoppers would likely be purchasing final-minute items for Shabbat, is not without context. Marc Weitzmann’s sadly prescient five-fragment series, or France’s Toxic Hate,which details the rise of extremism throughout France and its anti-Semitic tendencies, is a helpful primer.
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Source: tabletmag.com