"Merah is certainly a monster, but he was a French monster."

"Our passports may say that we are French, but we don’t feel French because we were never accepted here. No one can excuse what he did,...

"Our passports may say that we are French, but we don’t feel French because we are never accepted here."

"No one can excuse what he did, but he is a product of French society, of the feeling that he had no hope, and nothing to lose."