-
BBC
| 1 year ago
Video footage filmed by Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in south-west France, has been received by al-Jazeera in Paris, police sources say. A computer memory stick containing a montage of clips along with readings from the Koran was sent to...
-
The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people, sent a video of the killings to the television station al-Jazeera. Photograph: Anonymous/AP Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people including three children, sent a video of the...
-
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
French police source says the TV network in Paris received a computer memory drive containing a montage of footage accompanied by Islamic war songs; package dated the day police surrounded the terrorist's house. Video footage filmed by the French...
-
The Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
ments French gunman the latest of Europe's troubling 'lone wolves' President Sarkozy said the Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah acted on his own, highlighting Europe's struggle to curb the radicalization of Muslim youths. By Isabelle de Pommereau, ...
-
BBC
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to ban militant Muslim preachers from entering the country. The measure is part of a crackdown following recent attacks by a gunman who claimed to be a member of al-Qaeda. Mr Sarkozy said he would not...
-
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Sarkozy plans to punish viewing Islamist Web sites and going abroad for indoctrination, and to block the entry of some imams. France will bar radical Muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an Islamic conference next month as...
-
Zee News
| 1 year ago
Sarkozy Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the far-right's use of the recent killing spree to call for tougher immigration laws doesn't make any sense since the perpetrator was French. Mohamed Merah, who was shot by police after they closed...
-
The Independent
| 1 year ago
Suggested Topics The last testament of Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse gunman killed last week, suggests that he was a psychopath as much as a terrorist, someone who found an "infinite pleasure" in killing. Disturbing extracts from his boasts and...
-
Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
56 Mohamed Merah, the admitted shooter, was killed by French security forces on March 22 [Reuters] The brother of a gunman whose grisly murder spree shocked France has been charged with complicity in the attacks, but his lawyer said he should not be...
-
The Daily Telegraph
| 1 year ago
French investigative magistrates has put the older brother of Mohamed Merah, the gunman who killed seven people in and around Toulouse, under formal investigation for allegedly assisting in terrorist action, prosecutors said today. The four...
-
Canada.com
| 1 year ago
The brother of an Islamist gunman whose grisly murders shocked France went before a judge Sunday who will decide whether to prosecute him for complicity in murder and planning attacks, prosecutors said. Abdelkader Merah denies helping his younger...
-
Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Abdelkader Merah and his girlfriend were transfered here from Toulouse for further questioning about the massacre. A French judge has ordered the brother of the man who murdered four at a Jewish school in Toulouse last week to stay in jail while...
-
Zee News
| 1 year ago
French gunman's brother suspected of complicity Paris: French authorities have ordered the brother of an al Qaeda-inspired killer to be detained on suspicion of complicity in his sibling's assassination of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three...
-
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Police inquiries have produced grave and matching pointers that suggest his participation as accomplice in crimes relating to a terrorist enterprise is plausible," the Paris public prosecutor's office said in a statement. The inquiry will seek to...
-
Russia Today
| 1 year ago
The attack on a Jewish school that left three young children and a rabbi dead was an opportunistic outburst, French spy chief Ange Mancini has said. The Toulouse gunman had been planning to kill another French soldier instead...Merah, who was shot in...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Abdelkader Merah, the elder brother of the 23-year-old Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of police gunfire on Thursday, has been questioned at France's domestic intelligence hub in Paris after earlier being interrogated at the police barracks in...
-
The Observer
| 1 year ago
The killing of three Jewish children and a teacher might never have happened, it emerged this weekend, if the Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah had murdered his original target last Monday. Before being killed in a shootout at his apartment, Merah told...
-
Russia Today
| 1 year ago
18 Merah's apartment after the siege. Mb) embed video A video depicting the ravaged apartment where Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah met his bloody end has been released to the media. The tense 32-hour standoff between Merah and some 300 French...
-
Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
24 March 2012 Video footage has been released showing the inside of the Toulouse apartment of Mohamed Merah, the man who shot dead seven people. The chaotic flat is cluttered with furniture strewn across each room blocking the way. Electrical wires...
-
ITN
| 1 year ago
Handout The brother of al Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohammed Merah is being questioned by police in Paris after a massacre that shocked the country. Abdelkader Merah was taken by car from police barracks in Toulouse to the French capital along with his...
-
Zee News
| 1 year ago
French teacher calls gunman a 'victim', suspended Zeenews Bureau Rouen: A French teacher on Friday pushed herself into trouble when she allegedly urged her class to observe a minute's silence for gunman Mohamed Merah. Mohamed Merah, 23, was killed in...
-
News 24
| 1 year ago
French police on Friday blew up a suspect package in a city square in Toulouse, the south-western city where a radical killer of seven died in a police shootout the day before. Police had evacuated the square in front of the Capitole de Toulouse, the...
-
Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
France's prime minister yesterday rejected accusations his government could have prevented the multiple murders by an Islamic militant who was supposedly being watched by intelligence services. Francois Fillon said security officials knew Mohamed...
-
Russia Today
| 1 year ago
A teacher and three students were killed when a man opened fire on parents and children waiting outside a school in Toulouse. Two incidents of striking similarity left three French soldiers dead last week. The attack on a Jewish school that left...
-
Arab News
| 1 year ago
In the aftermath of a killing spree that shocked the nation, France's Paris-based politicians and national media are deep in debate about its impact on the upcoming presidential election and the need for tighter security. In the drab Toulouse suburbs...
-
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
French education minister calls for English teacher's suspension after she called Toulouse killer a "victim." France 2 Television France's education minister called for disciplinary proceedings against a teacher in the north of France on Friday,...
-
Novinite
| 1 year ago
France will pass tougher laws on hate speech after a series of killings in the south of the country apparently motivated by Muslim extremism, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has announced. Meanwhile, hundreds of people attended a rally in...
-
Fox News
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's spy chief says a gunman who killed three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school only attacked the school after missing his original target -- a French soldier. Ange Mancini, Sarkozy's intelligence adviser,...
-
B92
| 1 year ago
Francois Fillon says authorities could not arrest Mohamed Merah, who gunned down children, paratroopers and a rabbi, before he committed the crimes. There was not a single element that would allow us to arrest Merah before he committed the series of...
-
GMA News
| 1 year ago
From now on, any person who habitually consults Web sites that advocate terrorism or that call for hatred and violence will be criminally punished. Merah frequented terrorism or hate-focused Web sites. But the French government's policy met...
-
Sofia Echo
| 1 year ago
Police technicians on Friday were spotted loading bags into a van while several people looked on, near a makeshift memorial. Prosecutor Francois Molins said special police units were instructed to do all they could to capture the suspect, Mohamed...
-
Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
38 French security officials are facing questions over how a known self-proclaimed al-Qaeda member was ble to murder seven people, including three children, in three separate attacks in the country's southwest before being killed by police in a...
-
United Press International
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said visits to fanatic Web sites merit prison -- a claim made hours after an Islamist shooting suspect was killed in Toulouse. "Anyone who habitually consults Web sites that advocate terrorism or that call for hatred...
-
The Reporter
| 1 year ago
The prosecutor said Merah told police he wanted to "bring France to its knees." "While the facts concerning the three killings have been clearly elucidated, and Mohamed Merah carries full responsibility, the investigations are not finished," he said.
-
Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
The serial-killer suspect who died after a 32-hour stand-off with French police was one of about 400 al-Qaida-trained extremists in the European Union, the bloc's top anti-terrorism expert estimated Thursday. Twenty-three-year old Mohamed Merah, a...
-
The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Photos Video Video While French prosecutors painted a picture of a lone, psychologically disturbed figure who created his own brand of extremism with little help from others, there were open questions as to how a 23-year-old petty criminal from...
-
The Independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures Opinion blogs Rumours have been circulating this week about the release of a sex tape involving Tulisa Contostavlo... Every three seconds around the world, a girl under the age of 18 is forced into marriage. The cut in the 50% top...
-
The Independent
| 1 year ago
The scooter assassin, Mohamed Merah, insisted on writing his own bloody script to the end. After a 32-hour siege, the man who threatened to bring France "to its knees" died in a hail of police bullets yesterday while jumping from a window firing an...
-
New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 1 year ago
France's presidential election race now resumes, irrevocably altered by the killing of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman whose murders have shifted the political debate in favour of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Mohamed Merah's cold-blooded shootings of seven...
-
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
The French government is under pressure to explain why more was not done to stop a self-styled Al Qaeda gunman who reportedly killed seven people. Mohamed Merah, 23, died in a hail of bullets at the end of a marathon siege in the city of Toulouse. He...
-
j.
| 1 year ago
Follow j. on and Thousands gathered in Jerusalem March 21 for the funeral of four victims of the attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, an attack the self-confessed killer told French authorities was committed in the name of Palestinian...
-
The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old gunman who had claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, was killed after a 32-hour siege.Photograph: Reuters Late morning, the leafy residential streets surrounding the block of flats were almost silent. Inside one of the...
-
The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Editorial Nicolas Sarkozy reacted properly to a week's terrible events which ended in a hail of bullets in Toulouse. He condemned any attempt to denigrate the French Muslim community by associating it with the mad crimes of a terrorist. Neither...
-
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
Police found Merah's passport in his apartment following the raid Thursday that led to his death, LeMonde reported...Merah jumped to his death from his apartment window during a police raid on his Toulouse home. He was also shot in his head by police...
-
International Business Times
| 1 year ago
After a 32 hour standoff,the Islamic terrorist accused of killing seven people was killed Thursday as police raided his apartment. Mohamed Merah, who was barricaded in his apartment in the French city of Toulouse, was found in the bathroom of his...
-
International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Mohammed Merah was born in Toulouse, a metropolitan city in Southwest France in 1998 to an Algerian mother and a French father, and grew up in the Toulouse suburb Les Izards, which is known for a high level of both drug trade and use.
-
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
He was firing frantically at police from a Colt 45 pistol as he climbed through his apartment window onto a verandah and toppled to the ground some 5 feet (1.5 meters) below, in a suburb of the city of Toulouse, according to prosecutors and police...
-
Canada.com
| 1 year ago
French police shot dead Thursday a self-declared al-Qaida militant wanted for a series of killings of soldiers and Jews, ending a tense 32-hour siege in the south of France. The seven killings shocked France, home to western Europe's largest Jewish...
-
Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
14 A man suspected of killing seven people, including four outside a Jewish school in France, has been shot dead after a raid by armed police on an apartment in the city of Toulouse. Heavy gunfire lasting several minutes could be heard on Thursday as...
-
Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Breaking News Sarkozy announces crackdown on Internet hate sites President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday that France would make it a crime to consult Web sites that advocate terrorism or hate crimes and would toughen a crackdown on people who went...
