France: Teacher urges compassion for killer's unhappy childhood

Anorak:

MOHAMED Merah. Nutter. Child killer. Anti-Semite. Murderer of Muslim soldiers. Nazi. Mummy’s boy. And now a victim:

A French teacher was suspended Friday for allegedly urging her class to observe a minute’s silence for serial killer Mohamed Merah, the day after he was shot dead by police.

Education Minister Luc Chatel had called for the teacher to be suspended after her class reported she called Merah a “victim” and said his links to Al-Qaeda were invented by the media and “Sarko”, referring to President Nicolas Sarkozy …

Thankfully:

Most of the class walked out, though some remained “to try to understand what she was talking about,” their letter said.

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