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…
…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…
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…
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…
…iers and four Jewish people. The leaked papers suggest there was more than just suspicion on the part of the French intelligence services. Mohamed Merah had been tracked by the security services since 2006. The report prepared for the French government and leaked to Le Monde cites a DCRI officer raising concerns about the man in March 2011. The officer said Mohamed Merah rarely left his home and w…
French police have arrested 19 suspected Islamists and seized weapons in a series of dawn raids, President Nicolas Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio. The raids were in Toulouse, the home of gunman Mohamed Merah, and other cities. Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in three separate attacks, was buried in Toulouse on Thursday after being killed in a shoot-out with police on 22 March. Police have bee…
…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…
…rama unfolded is a few hundred metres from Mohamed Merah’s flat, in an area adjacent to the barracks where Raid police were based during the March siege that ended in his death. Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, killed seven people in three separate attacks before he was shot dead by police. His victims included three children and a teacher at a Jewish school, and t…
…ed down the judges’ traditional role of electoral oversight for the referendum. “We have decided to boycott the supervision of the referendum on the constitution scheduled for December 15, 2012,” the club’s head Ahmed al-Zind announced. “This protest is in response to what is being called the ‘constitutional decree’ and until this decree is rescinded.̶…
…unity” and promised an inclusive presidency. “There is no room now for the language of confrontation,” he said, after the election authorities declared that he had won 51.73% in the 16-17 June presidential run-off. On hearing the news of his victory, tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters cheered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, chanting, “Down with military rul…
…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…
…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…
Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi has told a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Iran that the Syrian uprising is a “revolution against an oppressive regime”. Mohammed Mursi, who is making the first visit to Iran by an Egyptian leader since 1979, said the movement had an “ethical duty” to support the uprising. His comments sparked a walkout by the Syrian deleg…
…an interim constitutional declaration issued after June’s presidential election run-off. The SCAF assumed presidential powers after Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down as president in February 2011. Its declaration and decision to dissolve parliament only days before caused outrage and overshadowed the nominal transfer of power to President Mohammed Mursi on 30 June. Of the 18 ministers na…
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has held her first meeting with new Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi. After the talks, Hillary Clinton reaffirmed Washington’s support for a “full transition to civilian rule” in Egypt. President Mohammed Mursi has become embroiled in a constitutional crisis after trying to reinstate a parliament dissolved by the judiciary and the military….
…ria. Protesters in the Mediterranean city stormed the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, throwing out books and chairs, and starting a fire. Up to 2,000 demonstrators stormed the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Suez, while hundreds of people also protested against the new decree in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. In a joint news confe…
Egypt’s stock market sees a plunge in its shares of almost 10% on Sunday, days after President Mohammed Mursi granted himself sweeping new powers. Protests against Mohammed Mursi’s decision have continued in Cairo, while the Muslim Brotherhood is planning rallies backing him later. Trading was suspended for 30 minutes as shares slumped in the first session since the president’s…
…d President Hosni Mubarak, his family, and former regime officials. It is likely to be a popular move, as although Mubarak is serving a long jail term for ordering the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising, many officials were acquitted, creating deep resentments. The ruling also bans any challenging of the president’s decisions and laws. Both critics and supporters of Mohammed Murs…
…sure enables the authorities to disrupt daily life and implement sweeping security measures. These include mixed police-military patrols and powers to suspend public transport and close schools. About 250 investigators are pursuing two main lines of inquiry – an Islamist motive or the far right. Three soldiers expelled from the army in 2008 for neo-Nazi activities have now been cleared of an…
…ooper out of uniform was shot dead in a residential area of Toulouse just over a week ago, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cash machine in the town of Montauban, some 29 miles (46 km) away, on Thursday. All three – of North African and Caribbean origin – were shot by a man on a scooter. A .45 calibre weapon was also used in the Montauban shootings. Pol…
…ns had been prevented from voting in a village in Minya governorate. He then spent several minutes announcing minor amendments to the vote tallies before suddenly revealing that Mohammed Mursi had won 13,230,131 votes, compared with Ahmed Shafiq’s total of 12,347,380, or 48.27%. The turnout in last weekend voting was 51.58%, he added. As Judge Farouq Sultan announced the victory of Mohammed…
President Mohammed Mursi has ordered Egyptian parliament to reconvene, a month after it was dissolved. The Supreme Court had ruled parliament unconstitutional as party members contested seats reserved for independents. The military, then running the country, enforced the move. But Mohammed Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood won most seats, said the chamber should reconvene until a new election is he…
Egypt’ Supreme Court has overturned a decree by President Mohammed Mursi to recall parliament. Mohammed Mursi had issued the decree in defiance of a military council ruling that dissolved parliament. Members of parliament gathered for a brief session earlier in the day before the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court was announced. Hundreds have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square…
…arliament last month. Earlier on Monday, the Supreme Constitutional Court rejected the decree issued by Mohammed Mursi the day before to reconvene the Islamist-dominated parliament. The court said its 14 June ruling – that the law governing Egypt’s first democratic elections in more than six decades was unconstitutional because party members were allowed to contest seats in the lower h…
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