THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared a shooting that left four dead outside a Jewish school to be a "national tragedy" as he vowed to find the killer who perpetrated the massacre that has rocked France.
• Sarkozy: "We should not back down in the face of terror"
• Prosecutor: Gunman "shot at everything"
• Police open anti-terrorism probe into three "similar" incidents
• France boosts security at religious institutions
• Dead include teacher, his two sons, and Israeli citizen
• City "on lockdown" as police hunt killer
• France election campaign effectively suspended
Visiting the scene of the killings in the southern city of Toulouse on Monday, Mr Sarkozy announced a minute of silence in all French schools on Tuesday and said the state would throw its entire weight behind the investigation.
A 30-year-old religious education teacher and his sons aged three and six were mown down as they arrived for class at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse on Monday. Another child aged eight to ten years was also killed, and a 17-year-old was seriously injured.
Anti-terrorism investigators have opened a probe into the incident and two separate, previous incidents in the area which saw three French soldiers gunned down by a man on a motorbike.
"We should not back down in the face of terror," Mr Sarkozy said, his voice cracking as he paid tribute to the parents and school authorities. "Barbarism, savagery, hate must not win. The Republic is much stronger than that. » | Monday, March 19, 2012
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