On Monday evening a service of remembrance was held in Arras cathedral in northern France. The congregation was there to pay its respects to Dominique Bernard, the teacher who was murdered by an Islamist at his school last Friday, not far from the cathedral. The service was led by Bishop Olivier Leborgne. ‘We don’t have all the answers, but we believe that peace is our future,’ he told the congregation. As worshippers lit candles, the choir sang ‘Jesus, the Christ, the inner light, don’t let the darkness speak to me’.
The Libyan who knifed to death three gay men in a park in Reading didn’t have much fraternal feeling, nor did the Tunisian who shot dead two Swedes
At around the same time as Bishop Leborgne and his congregation prayed for peace, 100 miles east a man opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle on a group of Swedes in Brussels. Abdesalem Lassoued, who was shot dead by Belgian police on Tuesday morning, was a 45-year-old Tunisian failed asylum seeker who was living in Belgium illegally.
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