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Brother of French jihadist fights radicalisation

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 10:06:47 +0200

His aim is to prevent young people turning into his brother Mohamed Merah, who killed soldiers and Jewish children in a shooting rampage.

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.

Toulouse shooting spree suspects arrested

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:19:00 +0100

French police arrested two people on Tuesday in connection with the attacks by extremist gunman Mohamed Merah, whose shooting spree in and around the southern city of Toulouse this year left seven people dead.

Netanyahu 'hijacked memorial service'

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:37:00 +0100

French President François Hollande has criticized Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for transforming a memorial service for Jews slain by an Islamist gunman in southwestern France this year into a campaign meeting.

Hollande and Netanyahu to honour Merah victims

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:09:00 +0100

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President François Hollande will attend a memorial on Thursday for three children and a teacher killed by an Islamist gunman at a Jewish school.

French spooks cut Merah monitoring: leaks

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:48:00 +0200

French intelligence services curtailed supervision of Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah a few months before his shooting spree in Toulouse despite his known links to extremists, according to leaked documents.

Intel agency monitored gunman's sister: report

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:13:00 +0200

Authorities were monitoring the sister of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah as “an expert in radical Islam” long before he was on their files, new information from international radio station RTL revealed on Monday.

Toulouse gunman 'was being watched'

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:54:00 +0200

French security services had watched Toulouse shooter Mohamed Merah since the end of 2009 and judged his behaviour "worrying" in late 2011, according to declassified documents seen by AFP.

Police storm Toulouse bank to free hostages

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:37:00 +0200

French police stormed a bank in Toulouse Wednesday, arresting a gunman with psychiatric problems who claimed to be an Al-Qaeda militant and freeing his two hostages after a seven-hour siege.

Gunman's dad: my son was murdered

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:45:00 +0200

The father of Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed Merah, who was shot dead by French police in March after going on a killing spree, has filed a murder suit in Paris, his lawyers said Monday.

Toulouse father: 'my son was liquidated'

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:08:00 +0200

The lawyer for the father of the man police shot dead in Toulouse claims to have video proof that Mohamed Merah was needlessly killed.

France attacks 'a little' like 9/11: Sarkozy

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:53:00 +0200

President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday that France was shaken by an Islamist gunman's shootings in and around Toulouse, likening the trauma from the murders to that of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

Algeria refuses to take gunman Merah's body

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:46:00 +0200

The Islamist gunman branded a "monster" by President Nicolas Sarkozy will be buried in France because Algeria refused to let him be buried there, a Muslim official said Thursday.

Al-Jazeera 'won't air' French killer's videos

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0200

Al-Jazeera news channel said on Tuesday it has decided not to air a video shot by an Islamist extremist of shootings in southwest France that it had received by mail.

Police seek 'third man' over Toulouse shootings

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:22:00 +0200

French police said Tuesday they were seeking a third person who may have been involved in the theft of the scooter that the Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah used to carry out seven murders.

Al-Jazeera 'could broadcast' killer's videos

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:23:00 +0200

The Al-Jazeera news network has not ruled out broadcasting videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer in southern France and will decide Tuesday, its Paris bureau chief said.

French police: we have copies of gunman videos

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:49:00 +0200

French police said on Monday they had copies of videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer during a series of shootings in and near the southern city of Toulouse that shocked the country.

Facebook removes Merah tribute page

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:57:00 +0100

Facebook on Thursday removed a page that paid homage to the young Frenchman who died in a shootout with police after killing seven people, officials said.