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10/07/2012

French press review 10 July 2012

Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah is back on the French front pages.

09/07/2012 - France

French TV defends broadcast of killer Merah in talks with police

A French television channel on Monday defended its decision to air recordings of Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah negotiating with police, amid widespread outrage and fury among his victims' ...

05/07/2012 - France

Two arrested after anti-Semitic attack on Toulouse Lyon train

Two youths have been arrested in Lyon, following an anti-Semitic attack on a 17 year old boy who is a student at the same Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where 3 children were killed by Mohamed Merah ...

20/06/2012 - France

Toulouse hostage-taking ends, hostages freed

French police have stormed the Toulouse bank where a man claiming to be an Al-Qaeda member was holding hostages.

20/06/2012 - France

Man claiming Al-Qaeda membership holds four hostage in Toulouse bank

A man claiming to be a member of Al-Qaeda has taken four hostages in a bank in Toulouse, the city where Mohamed Merah launched a deadly attack on a Jewish school.

13/06/2012 - France

French police doubt existence of Toulouse gunman videos

French investigators said on Wednesday that they doubted some of the evidence alluded to by the father of Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah, who has brought a legal case against France in the death of ...

12/06/2012 - France

Toulouse killer Merah's father sues French police

The father of Toulouse killer Mohammad Merah is suing the French police for killing his son.

11/06/2012 - France

Toulouse killer Merah's father to sue over son's death

The lawyer for the father of Al-Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed Merah, who was shot dead by French police in March in the southern city of Toulouse after going on a killing spree, says he has filed ...

07/06/2012 - France

Armed man takes hostage in Toulouse weather centre

A security worker is being held hostage in the Toulouse branch of France’s weather forecasting service, Météo France, by an unemployed man armed with a hunting rifle.

05/06/2012 - France - Pakistan

Western spies failed to tell France of Mohamed Merah's links to al Qaeda group - book

Western spy services had intelligence linking Mohamed Merah to an organisation close to Al-Qaeda, but failed to inform France before he shot seven people dead earlier this year, according to a new ...

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