He tried, but to his shame, he failed.
Via RFI:
The teenager who stabbed a Jewish man in the southern French city of Marseille said on Wednesday that he was ashamed he had not killed him. Politicians weighed in after a local Jewish leader suggested Jews should forgo wearing the kippa skullcap, which had served to identify the victim.
"I have no regrets, I'm proud," the teenager, who has not been named but is reported to have his 16th birthday next week, told police after his arrest, according to regional paper La Provence.
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He was "ashamed not to have killed" 35-year-old teacher Benjamin Amsellem, according to a police source quoted by the paper, who said that he became interested in radical Islam after watching a television reports that "more or less put forward the hypothesis that Westerners were being persecuted by the Muslims".
He reportedly declared his allegiance to the Islamic State armed group, while explaining that he does not "represent" them.
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