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
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.
