Toulouse
Toulouse - Verdächtiger war auch im Visier der US-Behörden
Toulouse. . US-Behörden hatten den mutmaßlichen Serienmörder von Toulouse, Mohamed Merah, auf einer Terror-Liste geführt. Der 23-jährige gebürtige Algerier war am Donnerstag bei einem Schusswechsel von französichen Spezialkräften ums Leben gekommen. Deren Einsatztaktik steht jetzt in der Kritik.
This undated and unlocated frame grab provided Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by French TV station France 2 shows Mohamed Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died Thursday after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shootout with police, a French minister said. The death of Mohamed Merah, 23, ended a more than 32-hour standoff with an elite police squad trying to capture him alive. Merah was wanted in the deaths of seven people, three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi, all killed over 10 days. Another student and another paratrooper were wounded in his attacks. (AP Photo/France 2)© AP Photo/France 2
