A father and his two young sons among at least four shot dead outside Jewish school in France

A father and his two young sons among at least four shot dead outside Jewish school in France.(DM).A father and his two young sons are among four people who have been killed following a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
There are now fears that a far-right wing gunman with a grudge against ethnic minorities following the killings outside Ozar Hatorah school. All of the victims have been Jewish, black or of North African origin
Prosecutors said the 30-year-old man who was killed he was gunned down along with his two sons, aged three and six. A fourth victim of the shooting at the school to the north east of the city is a child between the ages of eight and 10.
They described the gunman as shooting 'everything that was in front of him. Michael Jack, Toulouse prosecutor, said: 'He shot everything that was in front of him, children and adults, and children have been kept within the school.'
French prosecutor Michel Valet said there were 'several dead' following the shooting.
Parent Patrick Rouimi told Toulouse newspaper, La Depeche, that the gunman targeted people at an informal pick up point for the school.
The daughter of one of the school's directors, Charles Ben Goulding, was also believed to be among the injured.
Gilles Bernheim, the Chief Rabbi of France, said: 'I am horrified by what happened outside a Jewish school in Toulouse today. It has bruised by body and my soul. I am deeply upset and am heading to Toulouse.'
Pierre-Henri Brandet, spokesman for the French Interior Ministry said: 'Prefectures throughout France, particularly in the Southwest, should strengthen surveillance and vigilance around places of Jewish education.'
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the conference of European Rabbis, said: 'As the details of these horrific terrorist attacks emerge, the thoughts of Jewish communities across Europe will be with the families of the victims.
'In recent months antisemitic attacks have been narrowly averted in Azerbaijan and Georgia and sadly, though deeply saddened and outraged, many will be unsurprised by this terrible news
Sources say the gunman was wearing a helmet and fled the scene on a black scooter, echoing scenes from last week when three people were killed and a fourth injured.
On every occasion - including this morning's attack - the gunman was wearing a crash helmet with the visor pulled down, and he was brandishing two guns.
He was also wearing black motorbike leathers, and using a black moped, and used the same ammunition.
The same type of 11.43mm calibre automatic firearm was used in all three attacks, officers revealed.
'This morning's attack saw the assassin opening fire outside the Ozar Hatorah college where pupils, teachers and parents were gathering,' said a police source. 'He opened fire with two weapons, firing with precision and determination.'
According to spent cartridges found at the scene, the weapons used were automatic weapon of 9mm and 11.43mm calibre - exactly the same as those used in the earlier attacks.
Last Thursday a man launched his attack on soldiers from an elite parachute regiment who had withdrawn cash from bank in the town of Montauban, about 30 miles from Toulouse.
Two paratrooers aged 24 and 26 died at the scene, while a third, aged 28, died in the intensive care unit of a nearby hospital after receiving a number of shots to the head.
As they lay on the ground with horrific wounds caused by more than a dozen rounds rounds, the killer shot each man in the head, before escaping on a moped. Read and see the full story here.

Updated: HT:IsraelMatzav. Israel Radio is reporting that three of the four people killed were a teacher and his two sons, and the fourth was the 9-year old daughter of the school's principal.

Israel Radio says the teacher was 30-years old and that one of the children was 12. I assume that means the other child was younger.
Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande, who will be running against Sarkozy in the forthcoming presidential election, was also in Toulouse to show "solidarity" with the French Jewish community.

France's Grand Rabbi stated that he was "horrified" and "stunned" by the attack and was travelling to Toulouse.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the attack as "a despicable murder of Jews, including small children."

"It is too early to determine exactly what the background to the murderous act was, but we certainly cannot rule out the option that it was motivated by violent and murderous anti-Semitism," he said.