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rug

(82,333 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:24 PM Mar 2012

Motorcycle gunman kills 4 at French Jewish school

1:31 p.m. Monday, March 19, 2012

By JOHANNA DECORSE
The Associated Press

TOULOUSE, France — A motorcycle assailant opened fire with two handguns Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl. One of the guns had also been used in other deadly motorcycle attacks in the area, officials said.

Authorities ordered increased security at schools and synagogues around the country after an attack that revolted France, where school shootings and deadly attacks on Jews are extremely rare. The third motorcycle-based slaying in the area in a week, it produced high-level uproar in Israel and drew condemnation from the U.S. government.

French prosecutors were studying possible terrorist links but the motive for all three attacks was unclear. Still, religious minorities and issues of race have emerged as prominent issues in France's current presidential campaign.

News that the gun was used in attacks last week around Toulouse fueled suspicions that a serial killer is targeting French minorities, and not only Jews. The dead and injured in the earlier attacks were paratroopers of North African and Caribbean origin.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/motorcycle-gunman-kills-4motorcycle-gunman-kills-4-1390273.html

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Motorcycle gunman kills 4 at French Jewish school (Original Post) rug Mar 2012 OP

The LePen supporters are coming out, I see... villager Mar 2012 #1

sorry to say, it could be a number DonCoquixote Mar 2012 #2

I assure you that Mossad is not doing anything like this... ellisonz Mar 2012 #3

Looks like whoever it is is also attacking Muslims and racial minorities. rug Mar 2012 #4

The others have all been French military/police personnel. ellisonz Mar 2012 #5

May be. rug Mar 2012 #6

Developed. ellisonz Mar 2012 #9

Thanks for the update. rug Mar 2012 #10

Congratulations rug, you just hit the trifecta EvolveOrConvolve Mar 2012 #7

I'm still looking. There has to be a cat involved somewhere. rug Mar 2012 #8

A suspect is claiming to be a member of al-Qaida. Jim__ Mar 2012 #11

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. The LePen supporters are coming out, I see...

Reply to rug (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:26 PM

Mar 2012

n/t

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)

2. sorry to say, it could be a number

Reply to rug (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:27 PM

Mar 2012

of types

From Le Pen types
to Jihad Types
to even Mossad types trying to make some sympathy.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

3. I assure you that Mossad is not doing anything like this...

Reply to DonCoquixote (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:34 PM

Mar 2012

...they have better things to do, like sabotage against the Iranian nuclear program and keeping an eye on Syria and Egypt.

rug

(82,333 posts)

4. Looks like whoever it is is also attacking Muslims and racial minorities.

Reply to DonCoquixote (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:35 PM

Mar 2012

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

5. The others have all been French military/police personnel.

Reply to rug (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:37 PM

Mar 2012

They are probably being targeted because they are seen as "traitors." I'm thinking we're looking for a lone-wolf Islamic extremist probably of North African origin.

rug

(82,333 posts)

6. May be.

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 02:38 PM

Mar 2012

As shithead says, "Developing . . ."

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

9. Developed.

Reply to rug (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 03:35 AM

Mar 2012

By Laura Rozen | The Envoy – 1 hr 36 mins ago

Elite French counter-terrorism police were closing in Wednesday to arrest a possible suspect in the murder this week of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in the southwestern city of Toulouse, France.

The suspect in the attacks was described as 24 years old, of French descent from Toulouse with an Algerian mother, who had trained in camps on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and proclaimed al-Qaida ties. The other suspect was described as his brother.A youngster cries against a hearse following a ceremony at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse March 20, …

"Two French police officers were injured in a shootout during a raid on a house in Toulouse on Wednesday to arrest suspects in the killings," MSNBC reported. The raid was still ongoing at a house in the north of the city, the report said.

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"The suspect is thought to be a 24-year-old man who had previously travelled to the lawless border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan which is known to house al Qaeda safehouses," a French police official told Agence France Press, adding that "a source close to the inquiry told AFP a 24-year-old suspect had exchanged words with the RAID team and had declared himself to be a member of al Qaeda, the armed Islamist group founded by late Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden."

More: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/french-police-close-suspects-toulouse-killings-055423403.html

rug

(82,333 posts)

10. Thanks for the update.

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #9)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 05:53 AM

Mar 2012

Looks like you were right about the traitor aspect.

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)

7. Congratulations rug, you just hit the trifecta

Reply to rug (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 08:01 PM

Mar 2012

Religion, I/P and guns, all in one post. I think you may have just broke the DU.

rug

(82,333 posts)

8. I'm still looking. There has to be a cat involved somewhere.

Reply to EvolveOrConvolve (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 08:07 PM

Mar 2012

Jim__

(14,076 posts)

11. A suspect is claiming to be a member of al-Qaida.

Reply to rug (Original post)

Wed Mar 21, 2012, 06:19 AM

Mar 2012

From MSNBC

A suspect wanted in connection with the killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school wounded three police officers in a shootout at a house in Toulouse, France, early Wednesday.

Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the 24-year-old man, who was under siege by hundreds of police officers in an ongoing standoff, claimed to be a member of al-Qaida and that he had shot dead the four out of "revenge for Palestinian children." He is also suspected by authorities of having killed three soldiers of North African origin last week.

Police sources told Reuters that another man had been arrested earlier Wednesday at a separate location in connection with the case.

Several hourse after that initial raid at about 3 a.m. local time Wednesday (10 p.m. ET Tuesday), the alleged gunman threw a pistol out the window in exchange for a "communication device" and Gueant said the man had said "he will turn himself in this afternoon."

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