They were twelve years of age, the victims, two boys and a girl, all Jewish, though the French media neglected to mention their religion in the first reports. Nor did they bother to point out that the six attackers were Muslim, only that they were youths who resided in a suburb, a banlieue, east of the city center.
-- Narrator (Chapter 1)

Importance: This attack, which was actually an ambush on the children by the adults, is what initiated Hannah’s desire to host a conference about the new anti-Semitism being seen in France.

Rousseau did not care for the allusion, for he had no intention of emulating the conduct of the very creatures he was fighting.
-- Narrator (Chapter 2)

Importance: Rousseau is tasked by the chief of the DGSI to bring him the head of the person who had ordered the bombing in Paris as a penance for not stopping the attack. Rousseau was offended by his boss...