Posted on 03/19/2012 8:21:58 AM PDT by PRePublic
TOULOUSE, France (AP) A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two small sons and one other child, the prosecutor’s office said.
It was at least the third deadly motorcycle shooting in France in a week, shocking the country and prompting strong emotions and high-level discussions in Israel. French prosecutors were studying possible terrorist links, but the motive for Monday’s attack was unclear.
Concerns about a serial killer emerged, as investigators examined whether Monday’s shooting was linked to two deadly shooting attacks in the Toulouse region last week that killed three French paratroopers and left another seriously injured. French media reported those paratroopers were of Arab origin.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Good question. In Paris half the universe rides scooters; from investment bankers, to pizza delivery, to terrorists...
This was a hard clip to translate as one of the speakers was on a telephone and speaking very quickly. The shooter seems to be described as, of black origin although we could stand to be corrected if that is not what is said.
That video was not able to identify the victims, but a later online report provides those details here:
Visiting school teacher Rabbi Yonatan Sandler and his sons Aryeh and Gavriel all of the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood in Jerusalem were identified as 3 of the victims of Mondays shooting attack on the Ozar HaTorah Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday. Another victim, 8 year-old Miriam Monsonego, was the daughter of school principal Rabbi Yaacov Monsonego.Three children, ages 6-8, are fighting for their lives.The French television network BFM said the dead included a school teacher, his two children, and a 17-year-old male student. The daughter of the schools principal, who had been critically injured, has also succumbed to her wounds.
Prayers go up for them.
ברוך אתה ה אלוהינו מלך העולם, דיין האמת. Baruch Dayan HaEmet! Blessed are You, Lord our God, the true Judge.
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
May Gd comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
"Authorities said at the time that forensic analysis showed that the same weapon was used in the shootings in Montauban and Toulouse"via TimesOfIsrael
From the same link, photos of the victims (may be removed due to family request according to comments at link) - members of the destroyed beautiful, young family as well as the following:
In an apparently separate incident, threatening letters were sent to two Parisian synagogues on Monday. According to the French Police, letters saying, You are the people of Satan, hell awaits you were sent to synagogues in the capitals eighth and 19th arrondissements.Now who would be concerned with Satan more - Muslims or Extreme-right nationalists? I betting the shooter is of North African Muhammedan descent.
Lan Astaslem
لن استسلم
If there is video of any of the shootings from two or more angles someone is keeping it close to their vest. Thought France had lots of cameras.
Voizneias (yiddish for what is news)blog posts extensive photo essay
11.43mm = .45 caliber
"Kristallnacht was the culmination of more than five years and nine months of systematic discrimination and persecution. From the first days of Hitler's regime in Germany, anti-Jewish measures followed with disturbing frequency." (Page 119)
This site provides a year by year account of anti-Jewish legislation from 1933 to 1939
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007459
My apologies for not linking, but for some reason, I have lost the ability to post pictures and post links. I know the proper format, but when I try to apply it there is just a blank.
The killer was described as a small man who acted calmly, stopping to change the magazine of his pistol. Witnesses described how he had turned over one of the wounded men who was trying to crawl away, and fired three more shots into him. He was someone obviously used to handling a gun, a judicial source told AFP. One witness, who described the killer as of average height and quite fat, told French broadcaster RTL his helmet visor had been raised and she had seen his eyes and a tattoo or scar on his face. one of the soldier victims had a criminal record, other than a speeding offence in one case, seems to undermine the theory of a gangland motive. Furthermore, the soldiers in Montauban did not know the sergeant killed in Toulouse, according to France TV Info.Note: below the halfway point on the page, a gratuitous link to Breivik
What the victims have in common is that they belong to, or are associated with, ethnic or religious minorities North African, Caribbean and Jewish.
* On Sunday 11 March, Imad Ibn-Ziaten, a 30-year-old staff sergeant in the 1st Airborne Transportation Regiment, not in uniform, was shot dead around 16:00 (15:00 GMT) behind a school in a quiet district of Toulouse.He had posted a small ad on a website to sell a Suzuki Bandit motorcycle, and the suspected gunman had arranged a meeting to see it.
*Thursday, March 15th Two members of the 17th Airborne Combat Engineering Regiment, Corporal Abel Chennouf, 24 ( Catholic?), and
Private Mohamed Legouad, 26, were killed. Both, like Sgt Ibn-Ziaten, were of North African origin.
A third paratrooper, 28-year-old Corporal Loic Liber from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe (of Afro-Caribbean descent), was left in a coma. The sergeant was found shot in the head, his motorcycle beside him.
>>What did I tell all of you? I don’t know. I forgot. Care to remind us?
That the Rancid Media would immediately hide that the gunman is a Muslim — after both the French Government and Fox reported that he is a Muslim.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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There have been seven victims here, killed with the same weapon. THREE IF THE VICTIMS WERE FRENCH PARATROOPERS OF N.AFRICAN ORIGIN, THE FOURTH FROM MARTINIQUE.
There is no indication as of yet whether this is the work of Islamist terrorists, or far right neo-Nazi, neo fascist skinheads.
Don’t ever make the mistake of confusing the right in America, and Conservativism with the neo-Nazi, neo- fascist skinhead and racist groups in Feance and Europe.
There have been seven victims here, killed with the same weapon. THREE IF THE VICTIMS WERE FRENCH PARATROOPERS OF N.AFRICAN ORIGIN, THE FOURTH FROM MARTINIQUE.
There is no indication as of yet whether this is the work of Islamist terrorists, or far right neo-Nazi, neo fascist skinheads.
Don’t ever make the mistake of confusing the right in America, and Conservativism with the neo-Nazi, neo- fascist skinhead and racist groups in France and Europe.
There have been seven victims here, killed with the same weapon. THREE IF THE VICTIMS WERE FRENCH PARATROOPERS OF N.AFRICAN ORIGIN, THE FOURTH FROM MARTINIQUE.
There is no indication as of yet whether this is the work of Islamist terrorists, or far right neo-Nazi, neo fascist skinheads.
Don’t ever make the mistake of confusing the right in America, and Conservativism with the neo-Nazi, neo- fascist skinhead and racist groups in France and Europe.
The three recently murdered soldiers were of North African origin, and a fourth who was injured is from the French Caribbean. Now Jewish people.
Looks more and more like neo-nazis. Sky News here is reporting that three soldiers last year who also come from the barracks the dead soldiers are from were expelled from the French Army because of extreme neo-nazi behaviour, including dressing up in nazi clothes and taking nazi salute photos.
The latest from the Ministry of the Interior is that there was one weapon used in all the killings. There are indications that a neo-nazi, neo-fascist element within the military is suspected.
Eyewitnesses reported the killer had a tatoo, a hallmark of these groups.
http://www.francetv.fr/info/live/message/4f6/721/32a/399/167/260/0a9/d47.html
Its going to happen more often elsewhere, doesn’t matter what country.
The Islamic culture has no place for anyone of any other faith.
"Allah Akbar!!!!", screamed the shooter.
(sarcasm again)
I told you guys he’s an ARAB MUSLIM. I knew it!!!
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