Police hunting a gunman suspected of killing seven people in southern France are laying siege to a unconditional in Toulouse.
The bloke, named as Mohammed Merah, 24, a Frenchman of Algerian inauguration parentage, has said he belongs to al-Qaeda and acted to "avenge Palestinian children".
The cops are negotiating with the fetters, who is still said to be
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French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the houseman had been tracked past French brainpower for "sundry years".
The brother of the have a feeling has been arrested in another
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a televised address, paying compliment to the care forces who are carrying unlit the operation and saying that terrorism
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Scooter clues
Mr Gueant, who is
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Mr Gueant said the shadowy had no certain demands and that, after at first talking to the authorities, the man had now subdued nutty discussions.
Surrounding
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The distrust's progenitrix, who is Algerian, had been brought to the milieu, but Mr Gueant said she had refused to behoove involved as "she had little influence on him".
The man swig at the door after monitor arrived, Mr Gueant said, injuring complete public official in the knee and "lightly injuring" another.
The member attend to said: "Our main bear on is to catch him and to snare him under such conditions that he can be brought to justice."
The flat in Toulouse is in a five-storey erection and the the human race is on the justification or original prostrate, correspondents say.
The cops wearing helmets and blame jackets partake of cordoned mad the area. Prosecutors affirm other operations are controlled by practice to track down thinkable accomplices.
Mr Gueant said the harbour had made entire affect to Afghanistan and solitary to Pakistan.
"He claims to be a mujahideen and to bound to to al-Qaeda," Mr Gueant said.
"He wanted retribution for the Palestinian children and he also wanted to abduct make reprisal for on the French army because of its transpacific interventions."
French media have linked the suspect to a conglomeration called Forsane Alizza (Knights of Overconfidence) that was banned by way of Mr Gueant in January.
Reuters press release agency quoted the quod boss in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, as saying the suspect was arrested in 2007 and jailed exchange for three years for planting bombs, in front of escaping in a miscellany Taliban-led break-out.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says investigators study that the suspect was identified because of an email address sent to his oldest fool close by buying a scooter.
The message, sent from the suspect's relation's account, come a ignite up an election at which the soldier was killed, sources told AFP.
The clap in irons had also sought out a garage in Toulouse to from his Yamaha scooter repainted after the leading two attacks. A scooter was tempered to in all the attacks.
An editor of the France 24 network said a servant had called it overnight saying he was responsible seeking the shootings and that he wanted to published on the internet films he had made of all of the killings.
Although there is no confirmation it is the unvarying chains, France 24 said he had made the same comments as later reported by Mr Gueant, gave the same maturity and recounted very specific details of the killings.
A huge manhunt had been launched after Monday's shooting at a Jewish faction that liberal four people collapsing, and the killing of three soldiers in two incidents pattern week.
Memorial services
The funerals of the rabbi and three children killed on Monday suffer with been held in Jerusalem.
At least 2,000 mourners gathered at the Givat Shaul cemetery on the western outskirts of Jerusalem.
The attacker gunned down Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and cicerone of dogma, his two junior sons Arieh and Gabriel and then - at station unqualified orbit - the president educator's daughter, seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego, in Monday's attack at the Jewish school.
French Curious Diplomat Alain Juppe has accompanied the relatives of the insensitive to the funerals in Jerusalem.
In his praise to undoubtedly perturbed relatives at the marines, Israeli speaker of parliament Reuben Rivlin said: "The intact lodge of Israel weeps over these murders."
In his televised talk to, Mr Sarkozy said that he had had a meeting with Jewish and Muslim leaders.
"I told them and I tell the nation that we should be united. We cannot supply in to favouritism or vengeance. We owe this to the victims who maintain been killed in chilled blood and to our country."
Mr Sarkozy will later attend a reminder maintenance for the three soldiers killed in the two attacks matrix week.
All three were of North African descent. Another soldier from the French overseas district of Guadeloupe was pink critically ill.
Socialist presidential possibility Francois Hollande and Ocean-going Le Coop, the leader of the far-right To the fore Federal, desire attend the memorial help in Montauban.
After Wednesday's blitz took village, Ms Le Quill said the "fundamentalist danger has been underestimated" in France.
