Grief counseling will be given to media who hoped the perp was a neo-Nazi.
3/21/12, "Police in pre-dawn raid on Toulouse shooting suspect," BBC
"French police searching for a gunman who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have surrounded a house in the north of the city.
The man inside the bungalow where the operation is taking place has claimed affiliation to al-Qaeda, Interior Minister Claude Gueant told reporters.
Two police officers have been reported injured in the operation.
The man's mother is at the scene to help negotiations, Mr Gueant said, and his brother is under arrest.
Mr Gueant told French TV that the man informed police he wanted to "avenge Palestinian children".
The suspect also denounced French "crimes" in Afghanistan.
"He [the suspect] was in the DCRI's sights, as were others, after the first two attacks," an unnamed official told Agence France-Presse, referring to France's domestic intelligence service.
"Then the criminal investigation police brought in crucial evidence," the official added.
Police wearing helmets and flak jackets have cordoned off the residential area of Toulouse where the raid is happening, an eyewitness told the Liberation newspaper. ...
The attacker gunned down Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion, his two young sons Arieh and Gabriel and then - at point blank range - the head teacher's daughter, seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego, in Monday's attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse....
Mr Gueant has said the killer had a camera strapped to his chest and may have filmed the shootings."
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Below, 8 year old Jewish girl murdered by Islamic killer.
"He entered the school and grabbed Miriam Monsonego as she was running. He grabbed her hair and fired at her body. As she bled out and slumped to the floor, he listed her head and fired two shots at her head from point blank range to make certain his Jewish victim would not survive."
Map of France from Al Jazeera
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Update, 3/22/12, BBC, "Christian Etelin, a lawyer who has previously acted for Merah (the killer), said his client had violent tendencies.
"There was his religious engagement, an increasing hatred against the values of a democratic society and a desire to impose what he believes is truth," Mr Etelin said.
He also denied earlier reports that Merah had been jailed for explosives offensives in Afghanistan, saying his client was in jail in France for robbery with violence at the time - from December 2007 to September 2009."..."French gun suspect 'wants to die'," BBC
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