The southern French city of Toulouse, police rounded up actions launched since the early morning of 21 shooting suspects in the crime spree recently in Toulouse and other places under siege in a building. Same day, President Nicolas Sarkozy issued a statement calling for the French community to unite and challenge of terrorism.
According to reports, the French police at 3:00 on the 21st (21 10 GMT) about to start “special operations” raids Toulouse, a 5-storey residential building, the goal is Muhammad Meila He, on the first floor. About 300 police officers and special forces members took part in the action. As of press time, the siege of action continues, two police officers wounded in action.
During the siege, the police, and Meila He carried off dialogue and negotiations. Meila He is a 23-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin, he has said he was unwilling to become “martyrs” has no intention of committing suicide, and hope “alive” during the dialogue. The French Minister of the Interior at the scene directing Claude Gaiao, also hope that “the capture” Meila He. He said: “We want to avoid raids, because we want to ensure that Meila He lives, to accept the hearing.”
In dialogue with the police, the Meila He claim to be members of the “base” organization, had trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan border areas, he said, attacks on Jewish schools revenge as “died of Palestinian children in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict”. He also expressed opposition to the French participation in the Afghanistan war against the French ban in the public schools to wear the scarf covering all facial bill.
According to reports, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, 21, issued a statement condemning the French shooting suspect murderer “for Palestinian children to avenge the attack as an excuse. Fayyad said in a statement: “These criminals should stop ‘selling’ their terrorist acts on behalf of Palestine.”
Rounded start of the operation, French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace, met with Jewish and Muslim societies, and a brief statement after the meeting, to strengthen unity and urged the French people in the face of terrorism. He stressed: “In the face of terrorism, the French society can not afford to be divided. In the afternoon, Sarkozy arrived in Toulouse, and go to Montauban to participate in the three murdered soldier’s funeral.
On the 19th of this month, a gunman shot and killed in the southern French city of Toulouse, a Jewish school in front of three students and a teacher, shocked the international community. 11 and 15, there are four soldiers were in Toulouse and Montauban City, not far from Toulouse had been shot, in which three people were killed and one seriously injured. According to police, the Meila He has to admit that he has created from the three shootings.