On This Day... Mar 19, 2012: Toulouse, France A Muslim Fanatic guns down three children in cold blood at a Jewish school: 4 Killed

One of the children killed by Muslims

Hat tip  RoP  : The Toulouse and Montauban shootings were a series of Islamist terrorist attacks^[2][3][4] committed by Mohammed Merah in March 2012 in the cities of Montauban and Toulouse in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France.

He targeted French Army soldiers as well as children and teachers at a Jewish school.^[5][6][7] In total, seven people were killed and five wounded.

Merah, a 23-year-old^[8] French petty criminal of Algerian descent born and raised in Toulouse,^[9] began his killing spree on 11 March, shooting an off-duty French Army paratrooper in Toulouse. On 15 March, he killed two off-duty uniformed French soldiers and seriously wounded another in Montauban.^[10] On 19 March, he opened fire at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, killing a rabbi and three children, and also wounding four others.^[11][12] After the shootings, France raised its terror alert system, Vigipirate, to the highest level in the Midi-Pyrénées region and surrounding departements.^[13]

Merah, who filmed his attacks with a body-worn camera, claimed allegiance to Al-Qaeda. He said he carried out his attacks because of France's participation in the War in Afghanistan and its ban on Islamic face veils,^[3] and justified his attack on the Jewish school because "The Jews kill our brothers and sisters in Palestine".^[14][15][16] He was killed on 22 March by a police tactical unit after a 30-hour siege at his rented apartment there, during which he wounded six agents.^[17][18][19] His brother and another man were later convicted of taking part in a "terrorist conspiracy" over the attacks, which were condemned by the French Council of the Muslim Faith,^[20] the United Nations^[21] and many governments around the world.^[22]

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