You know what thought keeps cropping up when I think of the deaths caused by the French jihadi? Why did France not have a statewide search for the murderer of three soldiers in two separate attacks? They knew it was the same weapon that killed them all. They released that information during the hunt for the killer at the Jewish school.
So why didn’t the French care enough about their soldiers to launch a nationwide manhunt last week? It might have prevented the murders of three children and a rabbi.
Way to go, France. I see Inspector Clouseau is still at work there.
Even Inspector Clouseau would have done better. As inept as he was, he had humanity and he cared. He would have fallen all over himself — but at least he would have tried.
As long as we’re on the subject of fictional characters (yes, because the news is so awful today), I find myself wishing that we could resurrect Paul Gallico’s Zoo Gang and let them deal with the situation.
I may read too many novels, but I suspect that as long as they suspected a terrorist group, they were handling it as an undercover operation. Had they actually identified the attacker(s), I suspect that there would have been some “accidents”. It was only he went after civilians that they handled it as an open search.