French Students Recognize ISIL Child Executioner as Their former Classmate

French Students Recognize ISIL Child Executioner as Their former Classmate. (SP).

French students have reportedly recognized their classmate who is thought to have killed an Arab Israeli man in a video released by the Islamic State earlier this week.

Middle-school students from the French city of Toulouse say that they recognized their classmate in a gruesome video of a child executing an Arab Israeli man that was released by the Islamic State earlier this week, sources said.

"Concerning the formal identification of this person, I cannot tell you anything. Children from Vauquelin College have recognized one of their classmates, but we must remain cautious," Jacques Caillaut, the schools inspector in the Haute-Garonne district in southern France, told reporters.

According to the inspector, students at the Vauquelin secondary school would have known the boy when he was still in primary school in Toulouse.

"There is a child who has not been enrolled at the Vergers (primary) school since March 14, 2014, but I do not have any other details," Caillaut said.

Sources familiar with the case have said the boy may be 31-year-old Essid's stepson.

French officials have, meanwhile, opened a formal investigation into the video, which features a boy, who appears to be no more than 12, shooting a hostage in the forehead using a pistol.

Half-brother of Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah appears in execution video of a Israeli hostage.

Half-brother of Toulouse killer Merah identified in execution video of a Israeli hostage by Daesh.(FR3).

The half-brother of Mohamed Merah , Sabri Essid , appears on an execution video of an Arab Israeli hostage in Syria, posted Tuesday by the organization Islamic state, according to the RFI journalist David Thomson, a specialist in French jihadists and the French researcher Romain Caillet.

The bearded man appears there, alongside a child who fires a bullet in the head hostage.

Sabri Essid disappeared for a year from radar screens of French. This Toulouse, son of the second husband's mother Mohamed Merah married religiously, is a relative of the killer to the scooter . It is he who has organized the funeral of Merah in Toulouse, end of March 2012.

In this video, authentication, man speaks in French with a southwestern accent, claiming the death of the hostage, "suspected" by the Islamic State of being an agent of the Israeli Mossad.

He was known as a figure of Salafism in Toulouse, close to the group of Artigat (Ariège) and "guru" Olivier Corel. He was sentenced in 2009 to 4 years in prison for trying to reach Iraq via Syria. Since then, he was monitored by the Directorate General of Internal Security (RPS), which clearly had lost track of him for a year, when he again joined Syria with his family.

But monitoring of the Clan Merah-Essid goes back much earlier, as France 3 Sud had revealed in March 2013 . In 2006, the intelligence services of the notes first identify the older brother of Merah, Abdelkader, as close to the Salafist cell Essid. Hmmmm........On March 19, 2012 the French-Algerian Mohamed Merah shot and killed three Jewish children and the father of two of them at the entrance to the Ohr Torah school in Toulouse. Read the full story here.

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Mohamed Merah had officially no longer a valid French passport since April 2008.

Mohamed Merah had officially no longer a valid French passport since April 2008.(Liberte).Apparantly Mohamed Merah, the alleged assassin of the Jewish school in Toulouse and three soldiers,is a French national but also Algerian. This was stated by those close to the case and at liberty to disclose the matter. The day he died, on 22 March, Mohamed Merah had no valid French passport. It had expired nearly four years before.The same sources state that a single French passport was issued to Mohamed Merah. Born October 10, 1988 in Toulouse, there was only one application at the town hall. His French passport was issued April 22, 1998 (he was then 09 years, 5 months and 12 days) in Toulouse and it was never renewed. The French document is valid for 10 years, Mohamed Merah could no longer travel abroad with his French passport since April 22, 2008.
But his Algerian passport was still valid. On 20 July 2005 he obtained the official document at the Algerian Consulate in Toulouse. It was renewed March 20, 2010, always in the same consulate.Thus, since April 22, 2008, Mohamed Merah was only able to travel (legally) outside of France with an Algerian passport "The Israeli authorities, through the Shin Bet (internal security) confirmed that Mohamed Merah visited the Jewish state in 2010, for 3 days. He arrived in Israel from Jordan, crossing the Allenby Bridge, which forms the border between the two nations. Was he using an "Algerian Passport"?
He took a long, long, journey. This led him to Afghanistan, in late 2010 and then to Pakistan, the following year. In an interview with Le Monde, Bernard Squarcini, head of the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), describes this journey that would have occurred off the marked trails of international jihadism. He received contacts from his older brother Abdelkader, considered a fundamentalist? Mohammed spend some time in Cairo at his brother after going to Turkey, Syria, Lybia, Jordania and Israel.The "tourist" was even briefly arrested, in Jerusalem, Israel, carrying a knife.Questionned briefly at a police station, he was released.
Mohamed Merah's brother was investigated by the Belgian police in 2007-2008 for recruiting Jihadists.(LaMeuse).In 2007-2008, the Belgian Federal Judicial Police has taken a close interest in Merah Abdelkader, Mohamed's brother. But the evidence was not sufficient to press charges. However, Abdelkader could be the brain, the instigator of the murders committed in Toulouse by the younger brother, shot by men of the Raid. Abdelkader was not the focus of research. It would rather appear "on the edge" of a 'gang', or more specifically a recruitment network jhadiste based in Belgium. A network that was suspected of sending young Belgian and French activists to Cairo before joining the fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "But the evidence was not sufficient, either in France or Belgium. This case then could not succeed in court, "says the source.Read the full story here.(GoogleTranslate).

Police sources say Mohammed Merah is dead.

Didier Martinez, of the SGP police union, has just confirmed to media at the scene that Merah is dead. (Telegraph).Three policemen are wounded, one seriously during the shootout.We sent in special cameras to be able to see where he was but we could not locate him. It was when we were able to locate him in the bathroom that he came out shooting madly at everybody. The police had never seen anything like this kind of violence and the RAID officers had to protect themselves.
In the end, Mohammed Merah jumped out of the window, still shooting. He was found dead on the ground.Police fired 300 rounds during the assault.Read the full story here, more here Live French.

Video - Mohammed Merah driving BMW making shooting gestures & Shouting.

Video - Toulouse siege Update.

Breaking ! Toulouse 24 year old 'French Algerian jihadist' Mohammed Merah Not under arrest

Toulouse 24 year old 'French Algerian jihadist' Mohammed Merah Is not under arrest.(Telegraph).The man identified by the raid in Toulouse was reportedly arrested during the Raid in a building in Toulouse. Explosives were found in the car the brother of the chief suspect in the killing of Toulouse.Read the fullstory here (Live).French Direct channel here.

Updated : 57 Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, has denied that the gunman has been arrested, contradicting earlier reports.

Toulouse shoot out with 24 year old 'French Algerian jihadist' Mohammed Merah, 3 French police injured.

Toulouse shoot out with 24 year old 'French Algerian jihadist' Mohammed Merah, 3 French police injured.(JPost).TOULOUSE, France - A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school wounded three police officers in a shootout at a house in Toulouse in southwestern France on Wednesday and said he was a member of al-Qaida. Police believe the suspect to be holed up in the building.
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the man targeted in the raid was a 24-year-old Algerian man Mohammed Merah who had visited Afghanistan and Pakistan, and had shot dead the four out of revenge for France's military involvement abroad. He is also suspected by authorities of having killed three soldiers of North African origin last week.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, campaigning for re-election in a presidential poll in five weeks time, has blamed racism for Monday's school attack. His handling of the crisis could be a decisive factor in determining how the French people vote."He claims to be a mujahideen and to belong to al-Qaida," Gueant told journalists in Toulouse, referring to the gunman.
"He wanted revenge for the Palestinian children and he also wanted to attack the French army because of its foreign intervention."His two brothers are also detained by police seeking to verify their roles in the case.France has troops in Afghanistan as part of NATO forces.
Gueant did not say how they had tracked the man down, but that police were talking to his brother at a separate location in connection to the killings.
His mother had also been brought to the scene to help negotiate with the man, who is holed up in a small apartment building in the leafy neighborhood.But she would not get in touch him, claiming to have no more influence over him, as is the case with many jihadists who turn away from their families.
The fact that he's gone to Pakistan on two occasions showed that he had links with organized Islamist networks.The suspect stayed twice in Pakistan in 2010 and 2011. He was arrested in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in late 2010. Afghan officials have warned the French police, who inserted his name from that date in their information files.Heavily armed police in bullet-proof vests and helmets cordoned off the area where the raid was taking place, in a suburb a few kilometers from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where Monday's shootings took place.Reuters witnesses heard several shots at about 0440 GMT.A police source said the police could launch an assault if the standoff lasted for some time. "There are more and more people around, so this creates a dangerous situation."Read the full story here, Live report here from French Station.

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.