Video of Toulouse massacre sent by accomplice to Al Jazeera, officials says [View all]

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Source: Times of Israel

A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman’s attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera television network but not by the shooter, French police said Tuesday, raising the specter of a possible accomplice.

Al-Jazeera on Tuesday decided not to air a video that seems to have been filmed from the killer’s point of view and includes the cries of his victims. The decision came after President Nicolas Sarkozy asked them not to broadcast it.

A French official close to the investigation said it was not sent by Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman who was killed in a shootout Thursday after a 32-hour standoff with police at his apartment building in Toulouse.

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Zied Tarrouche, Al-Jazeera’s Paris bureau chief, said the video had clearly been edited, with religious songs and recitations of Quranic verses laid over the footage.



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