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(CBS/AP) TOULOUSE, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says authorities are raising the terrorism alert to its highest level across a swath of southern France where a gunman opened fire on a Jewish school before fleeing.Sarkozy said Monday's attack in Toulouse, which killed three children and a rabbi, was the worst-ever school shooting in France. He said the terror alert level is being raised to scarlet, the highest on a four-point scale, in the region that includes Toulouse and neighboring areas. One of the weapons used Monday, a .45 caliber handgun, was the same used to kill three paratroopers in two different attacks in the Toulouse region last week, according to investigators. Those two deadly attacks in the same region last week killed three French paratroopers and left another seriously injured. The attacker also used a .35-caliber gun, the police official said.The motive is unclear, but all the targets apparently have been ethnic minorities. Sarkozy also suggested one person was behind all three attacks.Sarkozy said 14 riot police units "will secure the region as long as this criminal" hasn't been caught.A 30-year-old rabbi and his 3-year-old and 6-year-old sons were killed in Monday's attack, just before classes started at the Ozar Hatorah school, a junior high and high school in a quiet residential neighborhood, Toulouse Prosecutor Michel Valet said. Witnesses said the man worked at the school.Police identified the fourth victim as the 10-year-old daughter of the school director. A 17-year-old was critically injured. The gunman fired 15 shots during the attack.
CondolancesAlso I hope the shooter was not Muslim
Quote from: kefkaownsall on March 19, 2012, 07:23:35 pmCondolancesAlso I hope the shooter was not MuslimPeople will say he was anyway, even if he was wearing a cross necklace so big it would make Flava Flav jealous.
Seems to be a rise in far-right action in Europe*. Anders Breivik, right wing parties making head way in the Netherlands and Scandinavia and now this.
That said, I've stopped trying to anticipate what people around here want a while ago, I've found it makes things smoother.
For I was an hungred, and ye told me to pull myself up by my bootstraps: I was thirsty, and ye demanded payment for the privilege of thine urine: I was a stranger, and ye deported me: naked, and ye arrested me for indecency.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Corinthians 13: 4-7
The French Police apparently have the suspect responsible surrounded.He's an Al Qaeda supporting Islamic Fundamentalist apparently. Cuing wharrgarbl from the Islamophobes in 3... 2... 1...
