Published date: 21 December 2020 15:43 UTC | Last update: 3 months ago
The French president is launching nothing less ambitious than a secular crusade. Not to save Jerusalem, but to save France s imaginary republican soul
French President Emmanuel Macron on 14 December (AFP)
For four years, French prosecutors strained every sinew to prove that a multinational jihadist conspiracy was behind the attacks on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
A total of 17 were killed in gun attacks that spread across three days and stunned the nation. This was France s biggest terrorist trial and yet, despite its importance, the fact that the attack on a newspaper led to a second and the likelihood that it will lead to yet more, the convictions last week left basic questions unanswered.