…sh school in the French city of Toulouse The gunman is reported to have initially used a 9 mm gun, but when it jammed, he switched to a .45 calibre weapon. A teacher at the school, believed to be aged 30, and his two children, aged three and six, are reported to have been killed. The third child killed was aged between 8 and 10 years old and belonged to another teacher at the school, French media…
…ack Yamaha scooter stolen in Toulouse on 6 March and “shot at everybody who was near him, children or adults”, according to local prosecutor Michel Valet. The dead were Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion originally from Jerusalem, and his two sons, aged four and five. The fourth person killed was a seven-year-old girl, Myriam Monsonego, daughter of the head t…
The funerals of the rabbi and three children killed on Monday are under way in Jerusalem. Israeli police said they expected thousands of people to attend. The attacker gunned down Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion, his two young sons Arieh and Gabriel and then – at point blank range – the head teacher’s daughter, 7-year-old Myriam Monsonego, in Monday…
…ha – was stolen in Toulouse five days before the first shooting. Its number plate was picked up by closed-circuit TV cameras at the school, police sources said. The dead were Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion originally from Jerusalem, and his two sons, aged 4 and 5. The fourth person killed was 7-year-old girl Myriam Monsonego, daughter of the head teacher. She d…
…blic prosecutor Michel Valet told reporters that the man “wishes to let it be known that he is not acting for money, but for religious reasons”. The hostage-taker was believed to be around 30 years old and known to the authorities, Toulouse newspaper La Depeche reported. He was from Castres, to the east of Toulouse, and one source told the paper he was a schizophrenic who had broken of…
…t Nicolas Sarkozy and family of the victims had asked for it not to be shown. The video has been edited into a “montage” accompanied by an Islamic war songs, and was sent in a package post-dated March 21 – the day before 23-year-old Mohamed Merah was killed by French special forces in his home city. Investigators have already confirmed that Mohamed Merah had a small video camera strapped to…
…man of Algerian descent, killed seven people in three separate attacks. His victims included three children and a teacher at a Jewish school, and three soldiers. He was shot dead by a police sniper on 22 March after commandos stormed his flat. In the wake of the shootings, the French authorities set up an investigation into whether Mohamed Merah had accomplices and into possible Islamist indoctrin…
…ed to have happened outside Ozar Hatorah school in the Jolimont area of the city. The latest incident comes days after three soldiers were shot dead by a man on a scooter in the same part of France. A 30-year-old paratrooper was gunned down in a residential area of Toulouse just over a week ago, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cashpoint in the town of Montauban, s…
cond term in office in the polls on 22 April. An opinion poll late on Wednesday suggested Nicolas Sarkozy was now ahead of main challenger Francois Hollande in first-round voting intentions – by 30% to 26% – and had narrowed Hollande’s lead in the largely expected run-off vote on 6 May. Mohamed Merah, 23, was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday. His body w…
…a day. Police sources told AFP that three officers had been wounded, one seriously, in the assault. Mohamed Merah is dead after his Toulouse flat was under siege for more than one day Mohamed Merah, 23, was suspected of killing seven people in Toulouse in three separate attacks. Earlier the interior minister had said Mohamed Merah had wanted to die “with weapons in hand” and there ha…
Mohammed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of a spate of shootings in the Toulouse area, has not been arrested yet, but police have surrounded his flat and are trying to persuade him to surrender. According to French prosecutors, Mohammed Merah planned more killings. Anti-terror chief Francois Molins said suspect Mohammed Merah, 23, of Algerian descent, intended to kill a soldier and two police offi…
The French police siege in Toulouse has ended with the death of Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of killing seven people, the French interior minister has said. Police stormed the flat where Mohammed Merah was holed up at 10:30 a.m., after a siege that had lasted 32 hours. Mohamed Merah, 23, fired at officers and was found dead after jumping from a window. The self-confessed al-Qaeda militant was…
…o his chest. Details of the footage were given both by Al-Jazeera and French judicial sources. Entitled “Al-Qaeda attacks France”, the video posted to Al-Jazeera on a USB stick lasts about 25 minutes, a judicial source told French news website 20 Minutes. “It’s very, very well produced,” the source said. “This is not some muddy, grainy film. The editing is profe…
…r documents it had seen showed Mohamed Merah had made more than 1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries. Mohamed Merah was shot dead on 22 March after a huge manhunt culminated in a 32-hour stand-off with police at an apartment in Toulouse. The Jewish victims included three children murdered at a school. Mohamed Merah’s rampage, from 11 to 19 March, terrorized the region….
The siege of Mohamed Merah suspected of seven killings in Toulouse, southern France, is nearing its end, police sources say. Three loud explosions were heard from the apartment block in the city of Toulouse at about 10:30 a.m., with reports police are now inside the flat. The siege of the building where Mohamed Merah, 23, is holed up has lasted more than a day. Interior Minister Claude Gueant had…
…tholic groups and other backers of traditional family rights. President Francois Hollande has promised to change French law so that gay and lesbian couples can marry. Despite opposition from more than 1,000 mayors and the Catholic Church, his socialist government approved a bill on the issue earlier this month which will be debated by parliament in January. France already allows civil unions betwe…
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