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Toulouse Shootings
3D Student:
It looks like more RAID are going after people. Enforcing the draconian internet policy or just making more lies to link together with Merah?
--- Quote from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17558564 ---Police in France have arrested 19 suspected Islamist militants and seized weapons in a series of dawn raids, President Nicolas Sarkozy says.
The raids were in Toulouse, the home of gunman Mohamed Merah, and other cities.
Merah, who killed seven people in three separate attacks, was buried in Toulouse on Thursday after being killed in a shoot-out with police on 22 March.
Police have been hunting possible accomplices but sources said there was no direct link with the raids.
Mr Sarkozy told Europe 1 radio after Friday's raids: "It's our duty to guarantee the security of the French people. We have no choice. It's absolutely indispensable."
Forsane Alizza
The raids were carried out by the domestic intelligence agency, the DCRI, with the help of the elite Raid police commando group, Agence France-Presse news agency reports.
Several of the raids were in Toulouse, particularly the Mirail quarter, sources told AFP.
But there were also raids in Nantes, which is believed to be a centre for the Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride) group, to which Merah had been linked by some French media.
It is a Salafist group that was dissolved by the interior ministry in an earlier investigation.
Merah is buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on 29 March Merah was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday
One of those arrested was the group's suspected leader, Mohammed Achamlane.
Police sources told AFP that three Kalashnikovs, a Glock pistol and a grenade were seized at his home.
Other raids took place in Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Nice, Rouen and Le Mans.
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says the DCRI had been criticised for allowing Merah to slip through the gaps, so the agency now appears to be concentrating on people that may have slipped from focus over the past few months.
Merah's brother, Abdelkader, has already been charged with aiding him and police are hunting a third man said to be involved in the theft of a scooter that Merah used in all the killings.
Police also say a USB memory stick that was posted to the al-Jazeera TV channel containing the video he took of the killings must have been posted by someone other than Merah.
'Profound trauma'
After Merah's killings, President Sarkozy ordered police to evaluate the level of danger posed by those known to sympathise with radical Islamists.
Mr Sarkozy told Europe 1 on Friday that arrests of suspected radical Islamists "would continue and that will allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people who have no reason to be here".
He added: "What must be understood is that the trauma of Montauban and Toulouse is profound for our country, a little - I don't want to compare the horrors - a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks."
Mr Sarkozy is in the midst of a presidential election campaign, seeking a second term in office in the polls on 22 April.
An opinion poll late on Wednesday suggested Mr Sarkozy was now ahead of main challenger Francois Hollande in first-round voting intentions - by 30% to 26% - and had narrowed Mr Hollande's lead in the largely expected run-off vote on 6 May.
Merah, 23, was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday. His body was accompanied by around 15 men, although it was not clear who they were.
Toulouse's mayor had said it was "inappropriate" for Merah to be buried there, but Algeria, where his family is originally from, had refused to accept his body.
Merah died in a police assault on his flat in Toulouse on 22 March after a 32-hour siege. He had killed three soldiers in two separate attacks before shooting dead three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.
Merah is said to have told police he wanted to avenge Palestinian children and to attack the French army because of its foreign interventions.
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I saw it first mentioned on the evening news today, but it was only a little blurb.
bngenoh:
--- Quote from: 3D Student on March 31, 2012, 01:08:18 AM ---It looks like more RAID are going after people. Enforcing the draconian internet policy or just making more lies to link together with Merah?
--- Quote from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17558564 ---After Merah's killings, President Sarkozy ordered police to evaluate the level of danger posed by those known to sympathise with radical Islamists.
Mr Sarkozy told Europe 1 on Friday that arrests of suspected radical Islamists "would continue and that will allow us to expel from our national territory a certain number of people who have no reason to be here."
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HA!
What is sympathizing with "radical Islamists" is it maybe calling out Israel, and NATO of which France is a part of, in their crimes against humanity most especially the Palestinians. To disappear, expel, etc, it makes no difference to a psychopath, the end result is the same in its eyes, ie there is no longer a "problem."
--- Quote from: 3D Student on March 31, 2012, 01:08:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17558564 ---He added: "What must be understood is that the trauma of Montauban and Toulouse is profound for our country, a little - I don't want to compare the horrors - a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks."
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Interesting choice of comparisons Mr. Sarcophagus.
--- Quote from: 3D Student on March 31, 2012, 01:08:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17558564 ---Merah, 23, was buried at the Cornebarrieu cemetery in Toulouse on Thursday. His body was accompanied by around 15 men, although it was not clear who they were.
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Interesting that there were even that many people there as he was public enemy #1.
Adaryn:
_http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1157881--france-fears-new-serial-killer-after-string-of-murders
--- Quote ---France fears new serial killer after string of murders
PARIS — A string of murders involving the same weapon have raised concerns that a serial killer may be on the loose in a Paris suburb, and come as France is still reeling from a wave of terror-related shootings in its south.
Four murders have taken place in the Essonne region of the capital since November, the latest that of a 47-year-old woman on Thursday. The same semi-automatic gun was used in all four attacks, prosecutor Marie-Suzanne Le Queau said during a news conference Friday.
Authorities stressed that there’s no evidence yet of a link to terrorism in the Essonne killings, but Interior Minister Claude Gueant told French radio Europe-1 that he fears a serial killer might be behind them, and that “maximum resources” would be used to find the perpetrator.
French agencies already are on alert after a string of shootings last month in southern France that police say was the work of an Islamist militant who used a motorbike, videotaped the shootings and claimed links to Al Qaeda. The alleged gunman was shot dead in a standoff with security forces.
She added that similarities were especially apparent in the last three murders, in which the victims were shot in the head. Gun cartridges were recovered in Thursday’s killing, when the shooter fled on a motorbike.
In the Essonne killings, Le Queau said all four murders appeared to have been committed at the same time of the day, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
The first murder, which took place in November, involved a different method, but the same gun, Le Queau said. She said a suspect in the first attack was already behind bars, but had retracted his confession to the November murder.
So authorities are still trying to establish whether just one person is behind the killings. In addition, questions remain about whether the victims were linked to one another. The prosecutor said the victims in the first two murders “lived in the same building” but made no clear link with the other two.
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Redrock12:
This has the distinct odour of a false-flag operation. Courtesy of Sarkozy.
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