Two policemen have been minor injuries this morning in a police operation that takes place at the moment in Toulouse in connection with the arrest of the murderer that caused seven deaths, four of them in a Jewish school, of that city, reported Wednesday the radio station "France Info".
The alleged murderer, a 24-year-old man, is Fronte in a house in the city of Toulouse, surrounded by agents of the RAID, an elite corps prepared for special operations of the French police. According to BFM TV, the suspect belongs to an Islamist group Forsane Allizza, next to Al Qaeda and recently dissolved by the French Ministry of the Interior.
The Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, said that the young man claims belong to Al-Qaeda. "Repeated its commitment with Al Qaeda and with media jihadists", said the Minister, who moved to the suburb of Coté Pavé, which is negotiating with the suspect.
The Minister assured the man says that he acts "to avenge Palestinian children" and to "denounce the foreign presence in Afghanistan" the brother of a suspect was arrested, said the Minister, while the anti-terrorist Prosecutor noted that "other operations" are taking place in Toulouse. Guéant said that policemen came early in the morning to the home of the suspect who immediately responded with gunfire, in which an agent was injured.
The place was surrounded by agents of a specialized group of intervention and shots were exchanged before the start of a phase of negotiation.
Agents led to the House to the mother of the suspect, but he did not want to negotiate with his son to consider that it has no influence on the young. Communication with the man takes place through the door of the House, said the Minister.
The decision to intervene was taken last night and the operation environment was launched at 3 hours of the morning (1.00 GMT). The young part of suspects who target police since the first of the killings attributed to him, that of a soldier Maghreb last day 11 in Toulouse.
According to Guéant, man is a native of Toulouse, of Algerian mother, has made trips in the past to Pakistan, and had contacts with groups Salafists and jihadis.
The Minister of the Interior lies in Toulouse since last Monday when there was the killing of four people, three of them children, in a Jewish school in the city. In addition to these deaths, researchers attribute to the same killer the death of two paratroopers in the nearby town of Montauban, the past day 15, and a third military four days earlier in Toulouse, all of them of North African origin.
As many as 200 specialized agents had been deployed in the region to hunt down the suspect, who used in the three facts the same gun and that, in each of the cases, he fled on a motorcycle of superbikes of the same brand.
Described by the Paris Prosecutor, François Moulins as an individual "extremely determined, with lot of cold blood and extremely targeted", the man killed his four victims shot point-blank in the head.
In addition, he left two wounded from gravity, a third soldier of Antillean origin in the shooting of Toulouse of the 15th and a teenager in the Jewish school of that city.