French Murderer “Prefers to Kill and Stay Alive” as Armed Standoff Continues (LIVE UPDATES)
That is from Jewish News Paper 1:50pm: According to the French newspaper Le Point, Mohammed Merah, who is still engaged in a standoff with French police, told the officers on Wednesday that he is not suicidal and he “prefers to kill and stay alive”.
1:30pm: French prosecutor Francois Molins says Merah plans to give himself up late on Wednesday while police say they are ready to “lead an assault” on the apartment Merah is hiding in, according to the French publication Le Point.
12:00pm: French prosecutor Francois Molins said Mohammed Merah had planned to kill two police officers in Toulouse on Wednesday and that Merah claimed to “have brought France to its knees.”
Molins also said Merah, who has confessed to 7 murders in Southern France recently, including 3 children at a Jewish school on Monday, had planned to turn himself in during the afternoon but that was pushed back until the evening.
CBS News is reporting that if Merah does not surrender soon, French police are “preparing to storm” the apartment he is hiding in.
11:10am: French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a memorial service for the three French soldiers shot dead by Mohammed Merah.
“They were killed because they were French soldiers, because they were the French army and this is the French republic that was affected,” he said.
Merah claims to be a member of Al Qaeda and has told police he killed the three french soldiers in response to France’s military presence in Afghanistan.
10:50am: Following a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarokzy, local representative of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Nicole Yardeni said Mohammed Merah was planning to kill again on Wednesday morning. “He had a plan to kill again”, she said. “It was intended for him to kill this morning.”
Sarkozy divulged this information to religious leaders during a meeting, according to the French newspaper Le Point.
10:30am: French President Nicolas Sarkozy left a police barracks near the scene of Wednesday’s standoff but did not make any comments.
10:15am: French Interior Minister Claude Gueant denies reports from French Media that Merah has been arrested.
“I deny, that’s wrong,” he told AFP. “The negotiations continue.”
10:00am: Mohammed Merah, who confessed to killing all seven individuals in Southern France recently, including 4 people in a brutal attack at a Jewish school on Monday, has been arrested after an armed standoff with French police, reports BFM TV in France.
The 24-year-old Merah thought to be a French national of North African origin. Muhammad Merah, who was in prison two separate times – in 2007 and 2009 – said Monday’s murders were to “avenge Palestinian children” and the three French soldiers who were killed just days before were because of France’s military presence in Afghanistan. Merah, who is a Frenchman of Algerian descent was tracked using his brother’s e-mail address, which was involved in the killing of Imad Ibn-Ziatena, a French soldier. Ziatena was selling his motorbike and was contacted via e-mail by Merah’s brother, who was apprehended by French police, eventually leading to Merah’s location in Toulouse.
Numerous reports say that Merah exchanged a pistol – the same caliber used in Monday’s killings – in return for a telephone device, after police officers were wounded while attempting to enter his apartment.
bastards why do they go to Pakistan?? Do those things around Arabian desert..
Topic: Four killed after shooting at Jewish school in France