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*{{flag|EU}} - The European Union's High Representative, Baroness Ashton, said that "When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, and we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world - we remember young people and children who lose their lives." Israeli ministers harshly criticised her comparison of the murder of three children and a rabbi in the shooting attack to the situation in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "It is unthinkable to compare a massacre and the Israeli army’s surgical, defensive actions against those who use children as human shields." Lady Ashton said that the press reporting of her speech made to Palestinian youths at an UNRWA event was "grossly distorted".<ref>{{cite web|last=Waterfield|first=Bruno|title=Toulouse school shootings: Israel demands Baroness Ashton resign after she compares incident to Gaza|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9155477/Toulouse-school-shootings-Israel-demands-Baroness-Ashton-resign-after-she-compares-incident-to-Gaza.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=20 Mar 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Netanyahu slams Ashton for ‘unthinkable’ comparison of deaths in Toulouse and Gaza|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/fm-ashton-comments-unworthy/|newspaper=Times of Israel|date=March 20, 2012}}</ref>
*{{flag|EU}} - The European Union's High Representative, Baroness Ashton, said that "When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, and we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world - we remember young people and children who lose their lives." Israeli ministers harshly criticised her comparison of the murder of three children and a rabbi in the shooting attack to the situation in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "It is unthinkable to compare a massacre and the Israeli army’s surgical, defensive actions against those who use children as human shields." Lady Ashton said that the press reporting of her speech made to Palestinian youths at an UNRWA event was "grossly distorted".<ref>{{cite web|last=Waterfield|first=Bruno|title=Toulouse school shootings: Israel demands Baroness Ashton resign after she compares incident to Gaza|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9155477/Toulouse-school-shootings-Israel-demands-Baroness-Ashton-resign-after-she-compares-incident-to-Gaza.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=20 Mar 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Netanyahu slams Ashton for ‘unthinkable’ comparison of deaths in Toulouse and Gaza|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/fm-ashton-comments-unworthy/|newspaper=Times of Israel|date=March 20, 2012}}</ref>


==Suspected perpetrator==
==Manhunt==
Mohammed Merah (10 October 1988 in Toulouse)<ref name="rtlbe">{{cite web |url=http://www.rtl.be/info/monde/france/865164/tuerie-toulouse-voici-le-portrait-du-suspect |title=Tuerie Toulouse: voici le portrait du suspect |publisher=RTL.BE |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref> is the suspect in the shootings. He is a [[French nationality law|French citizen]] of [[Beur|Algerian origin]].<ref name="bbc-profile">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17456541 |title=Raid on Toulouse shooting suspect |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref>
On March 21 at 3 am, police from the elite [[Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion|RAID]] unit raided the Toulouse house of a suspect in the killings, a 23-year-old Muslim man of Algerian origin<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0321/france.html |title=Live - French police surround Toulouse house |newspaper=RTE News |date=21 March 2012 |accessdate=21 March 2012}}</ref> named [[Mohammed Merah]]<ref>[http://www.dailyactu.com/fait-divers/mohamed-merah-lidentite-du-tueur-au-scooter-de-toulouse-13570.html MOHAMED MERAH. L’identité du « tueur au scooter » de Toulouse.]</ref> who claimed ties to [[al-Qaeda]]. Gunfire in the neighborhood of Côte Pavée, two miles south of the Ozar Hatorah school, left two police officers injured. The suspect told police negotiators that his actions were in retaliation to the deaths of Palestinian children in the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]], according to Interior Minister [[Claude Guéant]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/world/europe/toulouse-shootings-suspects-house-raided-by-french-police.html|title = French Police Raid Toulouse House for School Shooting Suspect|publisher = New York Times|author = Scott Sayare|date = March 21, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.france24.com/en/20120321-france-police-surround-raid-suspect-toulouse-shooting-qaeda-soldiers-jewish-school|title = Police surround suspect in Toulouse school shooting|publisher = France 24|date = 21/03/2012}}</ref>

=== Earlier life ===
Merah was known to French authorities because he had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan.<ref name="aj-1" /> He was allegedly arrested in Kandahar in 2007 and sentenced to three years in jail for planting bombs. But Merah allegedly managed to flee during the [[Sarposa prison attack of 2008|2008 Sarposa prison attack]].<ref name="reuters">{{cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/21/us-france-shootings-afghanistan-idUSBRE82K0KJ20120321 |title=French shooting suspect had escaped from Afghan prison |publisher=Reuters |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref> Kandahar authorities have denied that he has ever been in their custody.

In 2010 he applied for the [[French Foreign Legion]], but did not stay.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}

According to the suspect's lawyer, he was sentenced to a month in prison at the end of February after driving without a driving licence and was due before the judge again in April.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}

== Attempted arrest and siege ==
At 3:00 local time (2:00 GMT) on 21 March 2012 the French police tried to arrest Merah at his apartment on Sergent Vigne Street in the Côte Pavée neighborhood. But he shot at the police through the door, injuring two police officers in the process.<ref name="aj-1">{{cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/03/20123214219458757.html |title=French police in talks with besieged suspect |publisher=Al Jazeera |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref> He is armed with an [[AK-47]], an [[Uzi]], several handguns and potentially grenades<ref name="bbc-2" />. He exchanged a [[Colt 45]] for a cellphone.<ref name="bbc-profile" /> Weapons have been found in a rented car, a Renault Megane parked near the building. Two hours before the siege he called [[France 24]] news station.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd0bTjkci5c |language=French |title=Tuerie de Toulouse : témoignage d'Ebba Kalondo, rédactrice en chef à FRANCE 24 |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref> The five-story building block and nearby buildings were evacuated.<ref name="bbc-2" />

The suspect's brother was also arrested.<ref name="aj-1" /> His mother was brought to the scene to help with negotiations, but she refused to become involved, due to her lack of influence on him.<ref name="bbc-1">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17446999 |title=Raid on Toulouse shooting suspect |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref>

French interior minister [[Claude Gueant]] said that Merah appears to have no particular demands.<ref name="bbc-2">{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17462604 |title=Toulouse killings arrest denied |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 March 2012 |date=21 March 2012}}</ref>

=== Motivation ===
French authorities have quoted Merah as saying that his motives for attacks were for the honor of Islam and to "avenge" Palestinian children by attacking the Jewish school and attack the French army for its involvement in Afghanistan by shooting the French paratroopers.<ref name="bbc-profile" /> According to Gueant, Merah claims to be a member of [[al-Qaeda]].<ref name="aj-1" /> He's also affiliated with [[Sharia]] promoters Islamic extremists<ref>Francia proscribe un grupo islamista que reivindica la lucha armada, Lainformacion.com - Feb 29, 2012, http://noticias.lainformacion.com/religion-y-credos/islamistas/francia-proscribe-un-grupo-islamista-que-reivindica-la-lucha-armada_QLqKHTQ0GYtdXFiMAdYLw5/</ref>: [[Forsane Alizza]].<ref>"Al Qaeda man cornered for Toulouse school murders. Police prepare to storm building." DEBKAfile Special Report March 21, 2012, http://www.debka.com/article/21847/</ref> Some accused, he was incited by UN's worker's anti-Israel Palestinian propaganda - tweet.<ref>"Did UN worker's anti-Israel tweet provoke Mohammed Merah to murder?" Amorak http://www.anorak.co.uk/316512/news/did-un-workers-anti-israel-tweet-provoke-mohammed-merah-to-murder.html/</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 19:51, 21 March 2012

2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings
Location of Toulouse and Montauban, France
LocationMidi-Pyrénées region: Toulouse and Montauban
DateMarch 11–19, 2012
Attack type
Shootings
Weapons.45 ACP[1]
Deaths7 (4 civilians[1] and 3 soldiers)
Injured4
PerpetratorMohammed Merah[2]

The 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings are a series of shooting attacks in and around the French city of Toulouse.[1][3] The first attack occurred on March 11, with another on March 15. On March 19, a further attack occurred at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school, where at least four people (including three children) were killed. The gunman fled on a moped.[4][5] Following this shooting, the French government raised Vigipirate, France's terror alert, to its highest possible level.[6]

The suspect in the killings is a Muslim 23-year-old man of Algerian origin, named Mohammed Merah, who claimed ties to al-Qaeda.[7]

Attacks

Police believe the shootings are connected, and may all have been perpetrated by the same person. The authorities determined that all of the attacks involved the same weapon, a .45 pistol.[8][9] In all three attacks, the helmeted shooter arrived and left on the same stolen scooter.[10] Witnesses at the March 19 attack described the shooter as "medium-sized man of European descent".[10]

Commentators also note that all of the victims were ethnic and religious minorities, either North African, Caribbean, or Jewish.[8] Two of the soldiers killed were Muslim.[10]

March 11: paratrooper in Toulouse

On March 11, Staff Sergeant Imad Ibn-Ziaten, 30, an off-duty paratrooper in the 1st Parachute Logistics Regiment (1er régiment du train parachutiste) was killed when he was shot in the head at point-blank range outside a gym in Toulouse.[3][8] At the time Ibn-Ziaten was waiting to meet someone who had claimed to be interested in buying a motorcycle from him; however, it is suspected that the supposed buyer attacked him instead.[8] The perpetrator was described as wearing a helmet and riding a motorcycle.[11]

March 15: two soldiers in Montauban

On Thursday, March 15, at around 2 pm, two uniformed soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured outside a shopping centre in Montauban, around 50 km north of Toulouse, while withdrawing money from a cash machine. They were all from the 17th Airborne Combat Engineering Regiment (17e régiment du génie parachutiste), whose barracks are close to the town. Corporal Abel Chennouf, 24, and Private Mohamed Legouad, 26, both of North African origin, were killed. Corporal Loïc Liber, 28, from Guadeloupe, was left in a coma. The killer was on a moped and wearing a black helmet, according to security cameras. It is reported that an elderly woman, who was waiting to withdraw money from the cash machine, was pushed aside by the killer while he was taking aim.[12][13][14]

March 19: Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse

The type of scooter used in the shootings, a Yamaha TMAX

Background

The Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse is part of a national chain of at least twenty Jewish schools throughout France, educating children of primarily Sephardic, Middle Eastern and North African descent. The school is a middle and secondary school, with most children in the age range of 11 to 17 years. However, it is also a transportation hub for other schools. Many parents bring their younger children to Ozar Hatorah, and place them on shuttle buses that travel to the other schools in the area. The morning shuttle period is approximately 8:30.

Shootings

At about 8:00 am, a man drove up to the Ozar Hatorah school on a dark scooter or moped, possibly a Yamaha TMAX.[15] He dismounted, and immediately opened fire toward the schoolyard. The first victim was a Rabbi and teacher at the school who was shot outside the school gates as he tried to shield his two young sons from the gunman. The gunman executed one of the boys as he crawled away, while his father and brother lay dying on the pavement. He then walked into the schoolyard, and chased potential victims into the building. Inside, he hunted the staff, parents, and students. The killer chased an eight year old girl into the courtyard, caught her by her hair and raised a gun to shoot her which jammed at that moment. He changed weapons from what the police identified as a 9-mm pistol to a .45 calibre gun, and shot the girl in her temple at point-blank range.[16][17][18] The gunman then retrieved his moped and drove off.

Police cordoned off the area, escorting parents, children and staff out of the school. Security was increased in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Many Jewish institutions were already under continuous protection. However, due to this act of terrorism, streets in France which have Jewish institutions on them were closed to traffic.[17] The President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as other candidates in the presidential elections, immediately traveled to Toulouse and to the school and the election campaign was suspended. Sarkozy called for a minute of silence in all schools the following day.[19]

Victims

Four people died, including 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan (Yonatan) Sandler, his two oldest (out of three) children Aryeh, aged 6, and Gabriel, aged 3; and the head teacher's daughter, seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego, who was shot in the head at point-blank range.[20] The victims' bodies were flown to Israel for burial in accordance with the families' wishes. Another seventeen-year-old Jewish child was gravely injured.[21]

The bodies of all four dead were flown out on March 20 from Toulouse to Paris and subsequently from Paris to Jerusalem, where they were buried by family members at Har HaMenuchot cemetery. The two deceased children of Sandler were dual French-Israeli citizens, as are Sandler's widow and surviving child.[22]

Reactions

  •  France - The attacks were condemned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and French presidential candidate Francois Hollande. Sarkozy, Hollande, and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon all attended a service at the Grand Synagogue of Paris. President Nicolas Sarkozy said that it was obvious that it was an anti-Semitic attack[23] and pledged to meet Jewish and Muslim community leaders.[10] He said, "I want to say to all the leaders of the Jewish community, how close we feel to them. All of France is by their side." Sarkozy also sent his condolences to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the loss.[24]
  •  Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, condemned the "despicable anti-Semitic" murders,[25] and lashed out at the UN Human Rights Council which met, on the same day as the killings, with representatives of the terrorist organization Hamas. Netanyahu said, "What do you (UN Human Rights Council) know of human rights? You should be ashamed of yourself!"[26]
  •  Israel - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said," Only a person of Satanic evil can commit such a horrific murder of small children in a school."[27]
  •  United States - At the White House Press Office, U.S. President Barack Obama's United States National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Vietor, in an official statement, said: "We were deeply saddened to learn of the horrific attack this morning against the teachers and students of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims, and we stand with a community in grief. We join the Government of France in condemning this unprovoked and outrageous act of violence in the strongest possible terms."[29]
  •  EU - The European Union's High Representative, Baroness Ashton, said that "When we think about what happened today in Toulouse, we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, and we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world - we remember young people and children who lose their lives." Israeli ministers harshly criticised her comparison of the murder of three children and a rabbi in the shooting attack to the situation in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "It is unthinkable to compare a massacre and the Israeli army’s surgical, defensive actions against those who use children as human shields." Lady Ashton said that the press reporting of her speech made to Palestinian youths at an UNRWA event was "grossly distorted".[30][31]

Suspected perpetrator

Mohammed Merah (10 October 1988 in Toulouse)[32] is the suspect in the shootings. He is a French citizen of Algerian origin.[33]

Earlier life

Merah was known to French authorities because he had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan.[34] He was allegedly arrested in Kandahar in 2007 and sentenced to three years in jail for planting bombs. But Merah allegedly managed to flee during the 2008 Sarposa prison attack.[35] Kandahar authorities have denied that he has ever been in their custody.

In 2010 he applied for the French Foreign Legion, but did not stay.[citation needed]

According to the suspect's lawyer, he was sentenced to a month in prison at the end of February after driving without a driving licence and was due before the judge again in April.[citation needed]

Attempted arrest and siege

At 3:00 local time (2:00 GMT) on 21 March 2012 the French police tried to arrest Merah at his apartment on Sergent Vigne Street in the Côte Pavée neighborhood. But he shot at the police through the door, injuring two police officers in the process.[34] He is armed with an AK-47, an Uzi, several handguns and potentially grenades[36]. He exchanged a Colt 45 for a cellphone.[33] Weapons have been found in a rented car, a Renault Megane parked near the building. Two hours before the siege he called France 24 news station.[37] The five-story building block and nearby buildings were evacuated.[36]

The suspect's brother was also arrested.[34] His mother was brought to the scene to help with negotiations, but she refused to become involved, due to her lack of influence on him.[38]

French interior minister Claude Gueant said that Merah appears to have no particular demands.[36]

Motivation

French authorities have quoted Merah as saying that his motives for attacks were for the honor of Islam and to "avenge" Palestinian children by attacking the Jewish school and attack the French army for its involvement in Afghanistan by shooting the French paratroopers.[33] According to Gueant, Merah claims to be a member of al-Qaeda.[34] He's also affiliated with Sharia promoters Islamic extremists[39]: Forsane Alizza.[40] Some accused, he was incited by UN's worker's anti-Israel Palestinian propaganda - tweet.[41]

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