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A French court has extended the remand of Souad Merah, sister of the Islamist who killed four Jews in Toulouse. Souad Merah was arrested Monday night on suspicion that she blessed her brother, Mohammed Merah, ahead of his killing spree, in which he gunned down three French soldiers and four Jews near and in Toulouse…
Mohammed Merah’s mother said in a first interview with French media that she did not understand what made her son kill three French soldiers and four Jews in Toulouse last year. “I don’t understand any of it, he was a good and kind kid,” Zoulikha Aziri said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on France 3…
The sister of Mohammed Merah reportedly has been summoned to a Toulouse police station for questioning on her praise for her late brother’s actions in March when he murdered four Jews. Souad Merah, the sister of Mohammed Merah, entered the main police station of Toulouse on Wednesday morning, AFP, the French news agency, reported. Last…
French authorities reportedly have arrested a man and a woman in the Toulouse area on suspicion that they helped Mohammed Merah “commit crimes” that may have included the murder of four Jews. According to L’Express, a French daily, the two were arrested Tuesday morning. The French news service AFP named one of the suspects as…
The families of the victims of Mohammed Merah have called for a parliamentary inquiry into failures that allowed him to murder four Jews and three soldiers in the Toulouse area. The families’ attorney, Patrick Klugman, said the parliament should set up a committee of inquiry in light of the findings of a recent report, which…
French security “failed” in assessing the danger posed by Mohammed Merah, the French Interior Ministry said in a report about the Jihadist killer of three Jewish children and a rabbi in Toulouse in March. The 17-page report, which was submitted on Oct. 23, confirmed that the French domestic intelligence agency DCRI had been monitoring Merah…
Mohammed Merah, the killer of four Jews from Toulouse,reportedly had contacted people in 20 countries including Israel before perpetrating the murders. The daily newspaper Le Monde reported last week that French security services declassified records that showed Merah had exchanged information over the telephone with people from Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya,…
A 32-hour seige by French police outside the home of the suspected perpetrator of the Toulouse school shootings earlier this week ended on Thursday when police raided the apartment. Police said suspect Mohammed Merah fired more than 30 shots at police as they raided his apartment Thursday, CNN reported. They fired back, killing the 24-year-old…
