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| French police have detained three people, including a soldier, in southern France as part of an investigation into last year's deadly terror attacks in Toulouse that targeted Jews and paratroopers, prosecutors said on Wednesday. | French police have detained three people, including a soldier, in southern France as part of an investigation into last year's deadly terror attacks in Toulouse that targeted Jews and paratroopers, prosecutors said on Wednesday. |
| They were detained about 10 days after President François Hollande, speaking in Toulouse, said France is tightening its intelligence-gathering to prevent further terror attacks like those committed by Mohamed Merah, who police say killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers last March. Merah was later killed in a shootout with police. | They were detained about 10 days after President François Hollande, speaking in Toulouse, said France is tightening its intelligence-gathering to prevent further terror attacks like those committed by Mohamed Merah, who police say killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers last March. Merah was later killed in a shootout with police. |
| Two people in their early 20s were arrested late on Tuesday in Toulouse, one in the gritty Les Izards neighborhood where Merah, a radical Muslim, spent part of his childhood. A third person, a soldier on active duty, was arrested on Wednesday morning in the nearby town of Castres, prosecutors' spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said. A paratrooper regiment is based in Castres. | Two people in their early 20s were arrested late on Tuesday in Toulouse, one in the gritty Les Izards neighborhood where Merah, a radical Muslim, spent part of his childhood. A third person, a soldier on active duty, was arrested on Wednesday morning in the nearby town of Castres, prosecutors' spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said. A paratrooper regiment is based in Castres. |
| She described all three as being close to Merah, but said investigators want to know exactly what those relationships were, and whether any of the three could have had a role in preparing the attacks. | She described all three as being close to Merah, but said investigators want to know exactly what those relationships were, and whether any of the three could have had a role in preparing the attacks. |
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