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March 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Police gather outside the Ozar Hatorah school after the shooting (ERIC
CABANIS/AFP/Getty Images)
The city is now believed to be on lockdown as police hunt the gunman, who fled
on a black scooter.
The government has ordered that security be tightened at Jewish schools and
all religious buildings following the attack, which was condemned by French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, Jewish organisations in France, and the Israeli
foreign ministry.
The shooting comes just days after two other incidents in which soldiers were
gunned down by a man on a motorbike in the same region.
French anti-terrorism prosecutors said they were opening investigations into
all three incidents.
Police stated there a similar calbre of gun was used in all three shootings,
AFP reported, while Interior Minister Claude Gueant said on Monday there are “similarities”
between the attacks.
Mr Sarkozy, who called Monday’s shooting “abominable” and “frightening”,
quickly cautioned that it was too early to draw links between the attacks.
“There are some similarities but it’s much too early to say if there is a
real link or not. Only the police and the judiciary will tell us what
conclusions to draw,” Mr Sarkozy told French radio.
Monday’s attack occurred as students were arriving for morning classes at the Ozar
Hatorah school, which has around 200 pupils. The gunman opened fire
at the spot were parents were dropping their children off.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to travel to the school today
The city is now said to be in lockdown as police hunt the gunman. Some two
hours after the attack, the children were still in the school, where they
stayed until they were escorted out by police.
One officer held a distraught girl, her face in her hands. A mother and son
wearing a yarmulke walked away from the site, their faces visibly pained. A
video camera was visible at the school’s entrance.
Mr Sarkozy said he is travelling immediately to the school, along with his
education minister and the head of the CRIF, the umbrella representative
group of Jewish organisations in France. François Hollande, Mr Sarkozy’s
presidential rival, has also said he is on his way to the school.
Mr Sarkozy called the shootings an “abominable drama” and a “frightening
tragedy”.
Patrick Rouimi, the father of a child at the school, told AFP that a man
opened fire on a group of people standing at a spot where children were
picked up for the school.
“I saw two people dead in front of the school, an adult and a child …
Inside, it was a vision of horror, the bodies of two small children,” a
distraught father whose child attends the school told RTL radio.
“I did not find my son, apparently he fled when he saw what happened.
“How can they attack something as sacred as a school, attack children
only sixty centimetres tall?”
Montauban, where three French soldiers were gunned down by a man on a
motorbike last week (AFP/Getty Images)
The shooting occurred at about 8.10am, just ahead of the start of classes in
most French schools. The gunman initially used a 9-mm weapon but it jammed,
so he switched to a .45-calibre weapon as he went into the Toulouse school,
police said.
The gunman, wearing a helmet, fled the scene on a black scooter, witnesses
told BFM. A correspondent for the news channel said people in the area were
in “immense shock”.
Freelance journliast Christopher Bockman told the BBC that Toulouse was in
lockdown as police hunted the gunman.
He told France 24: “This is a medieval city with narrow winding roads, where
it is easy for a scooter to outrun a police car.”
The Israeli foreign ministry has stated it is “horrified” at the
news of the attack. “We are horrified by this attack and we trust the
French authorities to shed full light on this tragedy and bring the
perpetrators of these murders to justice,” Israeli foreign ministry
spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP.
France’s Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim has also expressed shock at the attack. “I
am horrifed by what happened this morning in Toulouse in front of the Jewish
school,” he told AFP, adding that he would leave immediately for the
southwestern French city.
March 15, 2012: Policemen work at the site where three French soldiers
were killed in a drive-by shooting near a military base in the southwestern
city of Montauban (AFP/Getty Images)
France has Europe’s largest Jewish community, estimated at up to 700,000
people.
The head of the Jewish students union of France (UEJF), Jonathan Hayoun,
called on the authorities “to reinforce security at Jewish schools and
synagogues.”
He also said in a statement that “anti-Semitic and racist speech has
created a climate of insecurity for Jews in France”.
Police in the area launched a major manhunt last week after the killing
of three paratroopers and the wounding of another in two separate,
but connected incidents. The perpetrator of both attacks fled on a
motorbike.
“One can’t fail to notice the similarities between the attacks on our
troops in Toulouse and in Montauban and then this horrible attack on
children this morning,” Mr Gueant said on Monday.
However a police official warned Monday that it was too early to draw solid
links between the attacks
“We’re in a heated atmosphere. It’s premature for this or that hypothesis
to try to establish a direct link,” Didier Martinez, regional secretary
of the SGP Police union, said on BFM-TV.
Witnesses described how the killer had time to turn over one of the wounded
men who was trying to crawl away and fire three more shots into him before
getting back on his scooter and making his escape.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said there was as yet no evidence to suggest the
soldiers had been killed because of their service in Afghanistan.
Between 50 and 60 police officers, including anti-terrorist specialists, have
been drafted in to the investigation.
Senior military officials have ordered troops based in the region not to wear
their uniforms outside barracks.
Mr Bockman told the BBC that the soldiers who were targeted were of ethnic
origin. He said it appeared the gunman was deliberately targeting ethnic
minorities in the area.
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