TOULOUSE, France — Just as the news of the horrifying murder in France is beginning to set in around the world, new eyewitness accounts offer even more chilling insight into the senseless butchery which took place at the Jewish school Ozar Hatorah in France.
Israeli news website ladaat.net reported that a friend of Miriam Monsonego HYD, 8, got off the bus together and was walking into the school, along with a group of students, when the terrorist began shooting. After hitting Miriam he approached her lifeless body and slapped her, then fired more shots into her ‘confirming the kill’.
The Algemeiner reported an account from a father, Moshe Chein, whose daughter also witnessed the attack:
“Monday’s attack at a Jewish school in Southwest France has put the local community on edge, but they are planning to hold a community event on Monday in a show of solidarity, according to Moshe Chein.
Chein’s daughter is in the middle school at Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish Day School, where a gunman opened fire and killed four people on Monday.
“My daughter is in the 6th grade and she arrived a minute before and passed by them [child victims] waiting with their father and as she went in, she heard gunshots. There was screaming - ‘hide, runaway’. She turned back and saw the guy a few feet away and saw him shooting at people,” he said.
“The kids who were killed were little kids that study in the elementary school,” Chein Said. “The children which were killed were waiting to be transported to the other school.”
Two of the three children killed on Monday were waiting with their father, who was also murdered. The family had arrived from Israel in September.
“He just came from Jerusalem, a wonderful family, wonderful kids and he was waiting with his kids to either drive himself, or have his kids be driven to the Lubavitch school.”
The third child victim was the daughter of the school’s principle.
Asked about the law enforcement response to Monday’s attack, Chein said it seemed very professional.
I immediately drove down to the school because my daughter was there and when I got there, they were already there. My daughter sent me a text, ‘ it’s dangerous, don’t come’, so I stopped off in the police station to get information and they were extremely extremely nice, they spoke to me and gave me support and told me to come back if I needed anything.”
“As I drove out of the police station, the helicopters had already arrived.”
Chein says the community is shaken up and his focus is on helping his daughter recover from Monday’s tragedy.
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