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EU ministers to talk train security at Paris meet

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:15:40 +0200

UPDATED: Interior and transport ministers from countries neighbouring France are to hold talks in Paris on Saturday to discuss security measures following last week's attack on a high-speed train that was foiled by passengers.

Moroccan charged with French train attack

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:27:09 +0200

Prosecutors have charged a Moroccan man over last week's attack on a high-speed French train, accusing him of a "targeted and premeditated" jihadist assault that would have ended in carnage had passengers not intervened.

Gunman 'visited jihadist site' before train attack

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:37:42 +0200

UPDATED: A Moroccan gunman who has been arrested after a foiled train attack in northern France looked at a jihadist website just hours before he boarded the train, investigation sources claim.

Hollande thanks Obama for US heroes' actions

Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:24:03 +0200

French President François Hollande on Saturday offered his "heartfelt thanks" to his US counterpart Barack Obama for the "exemplary conduct" shown by three US citizens who overpowered a suspected jihadist gunman on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train, the Elysée said.

France seeks answers as terror attacks marked

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:12:00 +0100

As France pauses on Wednesday to mark the two-year anniversary of Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah's shooting spree, the country’s intelligence services remain under investigation for its alleged failure to prevent the slaughter. And the hunt for Merah's accomplices goes on.

Two new arrests in Toulouse gunman probe

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:26:55 +0100

French police have arrested two men in the southern city of Toulouse in connection with Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah's killing spree in March last year that claimed seven lives, a police source told AFP.

Flashback horror for Toulouse Jewish school

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:59:00 +0100

The Jewish community in Toulouse has suffered an unpleasant flashback to last year's killings by Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah with an incident in which a school student was briefly confronted by a woman brandishing a knife.

'My name is Mohamed Merah and my life is hell'

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:29:00 +0100

Several Frenchmen who bear the same name as gunman Mohamed Merah have been targetted and harassed after the identity of the Toulouse killer was released.