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March 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
President Nicolas Sarkozy said that it appeared “obvious” the attack
was anti-Semitic and that he was suspending his re-election campaign until
at least Wednesday. He said “exceptional security measures” would
be taken in the Midi-Pyrenees region while officials raised the terror alert
in the area to “scarlet”, the highest possible.
Police said the inquiry was focusing on two profiles: a deranged loner or
far-Right or Islamist terrorist. They said they were concerned the gunman
may up the stakes, as he first attacked an individual and was now happy to
shoot at schoolchildren in broad daylight.
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two sons, Arye, left, and Gabriel, far right,
were killed
(Flash90)
As commemoration services were held on Monday night for the dead a massive
manhunt was under way with hundreds of officers posted at schools and
synagogues around the country. Security was also stepped up internationally
with Jewish institutions from America to Sweden tightening security.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led worldwide condemnation, calling
the attack a “despicable murder of Jews” saying it could not be
ruled out that it was “motivated by violent and murderous anti-Semitism”.
His foreign ministry said the families of the victims had expressed a desire
to bury their dead in Israel and that this would be arranged.
Policemen escort young people away from the scene of the shooting
outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse (AFP/Getty Images)
Toulose prosecutor Michel Valet described a chilling scene at the school on
Monday morning. “He shot at everything he could see, children and
adults, and some children were chased into the school,” he said.
One parent described the incident as “a vision of horror”.
The city is now believed to be on lockdown as police hunt the gunman, who fled
on a black scooter.
The shooting 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.
Some two hours after the attack, the children were still in the school, where
they stayed until they were escorted out by police.
Flowers are laid at the site of the shooting in Montauban, where three
French soldiers were gunned down by a man on a motorbike (AFP/Getty Images)
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.
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?”
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 shooter, 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”.
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)
Freelance journalist 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 Prime Minister has condemned the “despicable murder of Jews”
after the attack. A statement from the country’s foreign ministry added: “We
trust the French authorities to shed full light on this tragedy and bring
the perpetrators of these murders to justice.”
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.
The head of the Jewish students union of France (UEJF), Jonathan Hayoun, said
in a statement that “anti-Semitic and racist speech has created a
climate of insecurity for Jews in France”.
France has Europe’s largest Jewish community, estimated at up to 700,000
people.
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.
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.
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