Posted on 03/21/2012 3:09:12 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old Frenchman who is suspected for the shocking murders of three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi, is expected to surrender later on Wednesday, according to French Interior Minister Claude Gueant.
"The suspect told me - and I hope he told me the truth -- that he will surrender at 12 pm," Gueant said, as cited by CNN.
"He claims to be a jihadist and says he belongs to al Qaeda. He wanted to avenge the Palestinian children and take revenge on the French army because of its foreign interventions," he clarified.
The suspect has reportedly thrown his handgun out of the window after being surrounded by hundreds of police officers in a residential neighborhood of northern Toulouse.
Three policemen have been wounded in the police raid, which is still ongoing.
A paratrooper out of uniform was recently shot dead in a residential area of Toulouse, while two soldiers were killed and a third wounded as they used a cash machine in the nearby town of Montauban Thursday. All three - of North African and Caribbean origin - were shot by a man on a scooter.
The latest incident occurred Monday morning at the Ozar Hatorah jewish school in Toulouse, after a gunman opened fire on people waiting at a school drop-off point and then fled on a motorbike, killing a 30-years old teacher and three children aged 6, 3 and 10.
Its sad they should even feel the need to care about bias claims. If they suspected this and were correct then who can claim bias? Its part of the same surrender mentality our current administration has.
they supposedly had been eyeing this guy up for several days? Now they wait until he destroys all the computer evidence.
I agree.
Further down FR there is an article using a French news source. You can reads the article all day and not find the incriminating terms in it. PC at work.
“lets not jump to conclusions” ranks right up there with “you have to pass the bill to find out whats in it” for absolute stupidity.
No, but when it "might" have been a right-wing extremist, they were very quick to point that out.
The BBC is reporting that he was already under surveillance.
Gee...who woulda thought????? The creep is a member of the religion of peace. Maybe those killed looked the wrong way at a koran or something.
Gee...who woulda thought????? The creep is a member of the religion of peace. Maybe those killed looked the wrong way at a koran or something.
Or something?
Heh, I knew when they wouldn't release his name that he had to be Muslim...
They need to go old testament on this monster.
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