France: "I'd love to grab those little Jewish girls by their pigtails before killing them"

Via France24:

Nemmouche made more headlines recently following reports that two former hostages, Nicolas Hénin and Didier François, had identified Nemmouche as one of their captors when they were being held by jihadists in Syria. 

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François told Europe 1 radio on Monday: “Throughout our detention there was an anti-Semitic obsession [from Nemmouche], he wanted to replicate or outdo Merah, who was a sort of model for him.” 

The former hostage also said that Nemmouche described himself as “a young criminal who had been transformed into an ethnic cleanser”

Via Philosémitisme Blog and Libération:

Nemmouche further told François that "Mohamed Merah was the greatest Frenchman France has ever produced" and that he "would love to grab those little Jewish girls by their pigtails before killing them".  This is exactly what Merah did, as he chased little Jewish kids around the school playground and shot them to death.