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French gunman killed after 30-hour siege
Friday March 23, 2012 09:14:09 AM,
IANS
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Paris: A gunman
suspected of shooting dead seven people in France was killed
Thursday after police stormed into his apartment to end a 30-hour
siege.
Mohamed Merah was hiding in the bathroom when police stormed into
the apartment around 11.00 a.m. where he had been holed up for
about 30 hours, reported Xinhua.
"Mohammed Merah then jumped out of the window with a gun in his
hand continuing to shoot. He was found dead on the ground," the
minister said, adding that "during the last conversation he told
us he had changed his attitude and doesn't fear death."
According to Gueant, two policemen were injured in the operation.
Police had been trying to capture him alive.
Merah was allegedly responsible for the death of three French
paratroopers and four Jewish people, including three children, in
the past two weeks in the southern cities of Toulouse and
Montauban.
Before his death, he told a senior producer with France24 TV on
phone that the reasons behind the killings were to protest against
the French law enacted last year banning the Muslim veil and
France's military participation in Afghanistan.
Merah had initially offered to give himself up to the police, but
said later that he would "die with weapons in hand".
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the gunman, who planned to
kill two other policemen and a soldier, boasted that he brought
"France to its knees" and also regretted that he did not kill
"more people".
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