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"− Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask you to rise from your seats. We have heard to our great distress about the dreadful murders in Montauban and Toulouse. Three children, three soldiers and a teacher were murdered in a cruel and cowardly manner. Our sympathy and our thoughts go out to the parents, families and friends of the victims.
It is certainly difficult for all of us to find the right words to say about this appalling crime. I have seldom come across a more abhorrent act than this one and I am sure that the same is true for you. This is the type of crime which affects all of us. Of course, it has the greatest impact on the parents and the brothers and sisters of the victims. The most dreadful thing that can ever happen to parents is losing their children. We had the sad duty of discussing this subject in Strasbourg just a few weeks ago. Losing your children in this way is even more horrific.
We live in a world where cruel and cowardly murderers are more and more often taking upon themselves the right to decide who should live and who should die. They are also using the lives of innocent children as a tool for spreading their crazy, allegedly political opinions. This is why it affects us all. Nevertheless, in a situation like the one in which we and the French people find ourselves, in which the city of Toulouse and the Jewish community find themselves, in which the Islamic community finds itself, we are all required, ladies and gentlemen, despite our anger and our grief, to uphold our values. These are the values of mutual respect and tolerance. It is precisely these values that the cowardly murderers are targeting. We must not respond with anger, but instead we must have the determination to say, across all the political boundaries which separate us, that on one point we stand together, which is that respect for and tolerance of others, regardless of their skin colour, their religion, their gender or their political convictions, form the basis for our civilised society. Therefore, I believe that we should not only commemorate the people who died and express our grief, but also in our grief and our solidarity with the victims we should demonstrate our determination to defend these values in Europe."@en1
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