During a ceremony, French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron honored the four victims of the terrorist shooting at the Ozer Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012.

The shooting by Islamist terrorist Mohamed Merah killed school teacher Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and three Jewish schoolchildren — Sandler’s two young sons, Arieh and Gavriel, as well as 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego. The were killed while waiting outside the school.

The victims were buried at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem.

Relatives of the victims and French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux were also present at the ceremony in Sarcelles, near Paris.

Merah also shot and killed three French paratroopers before attacking the Jewish school. He was later shot and killed by a police sniper after a standoff in his apartment.

At another ceremony paying tribute to the Toulouse victims, French President Francois Hollande vowed ‘’tireless’’ fight against terror and said ‘‘democracy will always be stronger than Islamist barbarism’’.

“In killing soldiers, by attacking children in a school, all of France was attacked,” he said. “I want to tell their families that France is always at their side and that democracy will always be stronger than the Islamist barbarism that has declared war against it. The Republic, which faces adversity and is able to preserve its unity and its attachment to freedom, will tirelessly pursue its fight against terrorism.”

Toulouse Rabbi Harold Avraham Weill said in a memorial service that “the attack was the prelude to a national horror. There was a clear demarcation before and after March 19.”