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| Toulouse shootings: police arrest suspect and corner another in raid | |
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| A man has been arrested over the Toulouse shootings and another is engaged in an armed stand-off with police. Two officers were injured in a shoot-out during the swoop on a house in Toulouse on Wednesday morning, police said. | |
| Reports quoted police as saying the 24-year-old they arrested had told them he wanted to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children. He was described as a French national with an Algerian mother. The other suspect is reported to be his brother. | |
| Heavily armed police in bullet-proof vests and helmets cordoned off the residential area where the raid was taking place, in a leafy suburb close to the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, scene of Monday's shootings of three children and a rabbi. Reuters witnesses at the scene heard several shots at about 3.40am local time. | Heavily armed police in bullet-proof vests and helmets cordoned off the residential area where the raid was taking place, in a leafy suburb close to the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, scene of Monday's shootings of three children and a rabbi. Reuters witnesses at the scene heard several shots at about 3.40am local time. |
| The French interior minister said the suspect refusing to surrender had claimed allegiance to al-Qaida. | |
| The French news channel BFM TV said the suspect was linked to an Islamist group that it identified as Forsane Alizza but it was not immediately possible to confirm this. | The French news channel BFM TV said the suspect was linked to an Islamist group that it identified as Forsane Alizza but it was not immediately possible to confirm this. |
| Authorities believe the gunman in Monday's school shooting was the same person responsible for killing three soldiers of North African origin in two shootings last week in Toulouse and the nearby town of Montauban. | Authorities believe the gunman in Monday's school shooting was the same person responsible for killing three soldiers of North African origin in two shootings last week in Toulouse and the nearby town of Montauban. |
| A third soldier, of Caribbean origin, remains in a coma. | A third soldier, of Caribbean origin, remains in a coma. |
| The same Colt 45 handgun was used in all three attacks and in each case the gunman arrived on a Yamaha scooter with his face hidden by a motorcycle helmet. | The same Colt 45 handgun was used in all three attacks and in each case the gunman arrived on a Yamaha scooter with his face hidden by a motorcycle helmet. |
| The killings come five weeks before the first round of France's presidential elections in which immigration and Islam have been major themes as President Nicolas Sarkozy seeks to win over voters from far-right leader Marine Le Pen. | The killings come five weeks before the first round of France's presidential elections in which immigration and Islam have been major themes as President Nicolas Sarkozy seeks to win over voters from far-right leader Marine Le Pen. |