[servantoftheservant]

Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni

"The pair, who are also French..." Right, these guys are French like a horse in water is a fish.

[Cronos]

Yes, they were as French as the previous French President Nicolas Sarkozy the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa - Sarkozy is half hungarian, quarter Greek-Jewish and quarter French. Or as French as Napoleon - wholly Corsican. Or as French as the mayor of Paris - Anne Hidalgo, born in Spain of purely Spanish origin who defeated Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet - of part Polish origin.

France has had people of multiple origins since the early 1700s or arguably even earlier.

As to the Algerian genes of both these murderers, Sabrina is part Franco-Algerian and Ouissem seems wholly of Franco-Algerian origin -- and these families date from the time when the French government declared Algeria as part of France, a French department (state) -- so no more strange than that there are hawaiian names among US citizens, or a Ted Cruz can be a politician.