“He was completely cut off from reality.”
– Christian Etelin, about Mohammed Merah, a suspected Al-Qaeda-trained militant who was wanted by French police in the killings of a rabbi and 3 children at a Jewish school in Toulouse and 3 French paratroopers on March 11. Etelin is a lawyer who represented Merah in an incident earlier this year involving a traffic accident. Merah died in a hail of gunfire Thursday in Toulouse.
I know it doesn’t bring any real justice for the victims, but considering that France doesn’t have the death penalty – even for the most mentally deranged – this spares the families the pain of a long, politically-correct trial.
Chief Writing Wolf 