Four shot dead at French Jewish school

[Sibboleth]

A gunman has shot dead a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse.

He opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school in the north-east of the city, also seriously injuring a teenage boy.

The attacker fled on a scooter, in similar style to the killer of three soldiers in two separate incidents in the same part of France last week.

Police say the same .45 calibre gun was used in all three attacks. The search for the killer is now under way.

Sources close to the investigation say the number plate of the scooter has now been recovered from CCTV cameras at the entrance to the school.

A special service in memory of the victims is taking place at one of the synagogues in Toulouse. There will also be a silent march in Paris at 20:00 (19:00).

President Nicolas Sarkozy, who flew to Toulouse, described the attack as a "national tragedy". He has called for all schools in France to observe a minute's silence on Tuesday and vowed to hunt down the killer.

All candidates in the French presidential election have suspended their campaigns.

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[Old Europe]

Thread merger possible?

http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=150775.0

[Vasall des Midas]

Somehow both news stories fail to mention that the soldiers were of North African origin... we seem to be dealing with a very much oldstyle racist here.

[patrick1]

Somehow both news stories fail to mention that the soldiers were of North African origin... we seem to be dealing with a very much oldstyle racist here.

Maybe. However, it could also be someone who viewed the soldiers as apostates.  Whatever the killers motives hopefully they can capture him soon.

[Old Europe]

Great, and whatever the killers' identities are, it could have an impact on the outcome of the presidential election one way or the other.

[Formerly Californian Tony]

Thread merger possible?

http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=150775.0

Yeah, it looks like the slaughterer is the same.

It's been quite a shock here in France, to the point that candidates have suspended their campaign (the official campaign begins today) and news keep talking about that.

[Formerly Californian Tony]

...and Sarko has launched the Anti-terrorist protocol (the so-called "Plan Vipirate") at the maximum level of alert.

[Senator MaxQue]

Wouldn't that be Vigipirate?

[State Comptroller Atkins]

Terrible. RIP to the victims.

[ChairmanSanchez]

I believe these attacks on soldiers and now on this school are the work of a radical lone wolf Islamist or neo Nazi. 

[State Comptroller Atkins]

I believe these attacks on soldiers and now on this school are the work of a radical lone wolf Islamist or neo Nazi. 

You really should become an FBI agent.

[ChairmanSanchez]

I believe these attacks on soldiers and now on this school are the work of a radical lone wolf Islamist or neo Nazi. 

You really should become an FBI agent.

I know...pointing out the obvious is a rare feature to most in DC these days.

[Old Europe]

Wouldn't that be Vigipirate?

And as I've learned through Wikipedia a couple of minutes ago, it's usually called "Plan Vichypirate" by civil rights activists.

[Formerly Californian Tony]

Wouldn't that be Vigipirate?

Yep. Typo.

[batmacumba]

I believe these attacks on soldiers and now on this school are the work of a radical lone wolf Islamist or neo Nazi. 

You really should become an FBI agent.

I know...pointing out the obvious is a rare feature to most in DC these days.

Being the soldiers North-Africans, you have spent two unnecessary words with the taxpayers money. You're fired.

[danny]

So it seems that it was Islamists.

[dead0man]

Hopefully the standoff ends with dead bad guy....unless he has intel on compatriots that we couldn't get from other evidence.

[Senator MaxQue]

They want him alive, so, the siege of his house isn't ended yet.

[Old Europe]

Hopefully the standoff ends with dead bad guy....unless he has intel on compatriots that we couldn't get from other evidence.

In a somewhat homicidal mood today?

[Sibboleth]

In one of those moments of utter shudderworthy shuddering it emerges that this man was actually known to the police.

[Formerly Californian Tony]

I hope this will end soon and with the least deaths possible.

[Sibboleth]

Seems as though they're trying to storm the flat right now.

[Beet]

There were mistaken reports that he was arrested... I guess they'll have to wait until he falls asleep.

[Sibboleth]

Seems as though they're trying to storm the flat right now.

Actually no. They were just trying to... er... make noises?

[Vosem]

I hope this will end soon and with the least deaths possible.

I hope he and his compatriots are caught, interrogated, given reduced sentences if they cooperate and (if found guilty in a fair trial) sentenced to death if they do not.