The suspect of Toulouse will be delivered “this afternoon”
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – an armed man suspected of killing seven people in the name of Al-Qaeda, including three children in a Jewish school, said on Wednesday handed over to the police to end a siege in the southwest of France. About 300 police officers heavily armed with helmets and bullet-proof vests cordoned off a residential area around a building of four floors in Toulouse, where the Muslim of 24 years, identified as Mohamed Merah, was entrenched on the ground floor. Two officers were injured in the operation. The Minister of the Interior, Claude Gueant, said that the man was a French citizen of Algerian origin who had visited several times Afghanistan and Pakistan and indicated that it was acting in revenge for the French military involvement abroad. The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, which is presented to the first round of the presidential elections in five weeks, said France should not give in to a desire for revenge or discrimination for the murder of a Rabbi and three children in a school Jewish in Toulouse and three soldiers of North African origin. Its warning came after the leading ultraderechista Marine Le Pen, a rival in the presidential campaign, said that France should fight a war against Islamic fundamentalism. , “have brought communities Jewish and Muslim to show that terrorism will not break the sense of community of our nation”,...
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