Paris kedoshim buried • royal: "France is suffering like you"

Thousands of people accompanied (Tuesday) to buraial the four kedoshim murdered at the supermarket "hyper-cachet" in Paris. Their bodies were buried in a national ceremony on Mount Hamenuhot, attended by the President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog. France was represented at the ceremony by Minister Segolene Royal.

One by one, the kedoshim were buried: Francois Michel Saada (60), Philip Barham (40), Johan Cohen (22) and Yoav Khattab (21) hy"d, when the family lit torches in memory, and carried out eulogies.

Son of Francois-Michel Saada said: "My father loved Israel and he really wanted to live here. Now he's here." Yoav Khattab's father said: "I have nothing to say. I accept".

Rivlin eulogized and said, "This is not how we wanted to welcome you into Israel. Not so, we wanted you to come to Israel. This is not how we wanted to see you; we wanted you to come home, to the State of Israel, its capital - Jerusalem. We wanted you to live." He added that the four "were killed Friday night in Paris - in cold blood, because they are Jews. Murderer made sure that it is a Jewish place, and then carried out the massacre. This is pure evil. It brings back bad memories. This is sheer hatred of Jews."

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!