| Author (Person) | Carnegy, Hugh |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 21.3.12 |
| Publication Date | 21/03/2012 |
| Content Type | News |
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French police hunting the killer of three children and a teacher shot dead at a Jewish school in the southern city of Toulouse on the 19 March 2012, and three French Muslim soldiers a week earlier, were negotiating with a suspected al-Qaeda sympathiser holed up in a house in the city on the 21 March 2012. Features reflect upon the the emergence of home-grown Islamist terrorism on French soil. The killings shocked the country, prompting a bout of national soul-searching at the height of a bitter presidential election race. On the 22 March 2012 Mohammed Merah was shot dead by a police sniper, bringing an end to the worst act of violent jihadism on French soil since the emergence of al-Qaeda as a global threat. |
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| Subject Categories | Security and Defence |
| Countries / Regions | France |
