InfoAnda - Gunman attacks Jewish school in France, four killed |

Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case
Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They

Taiwan denies boycotting Australian film festival
Thursday, August 6, 2009

AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e

Merkel's support dips, regional ally resigns International
Thursday, September 3, 2009

By Sarah Marsh and Noah Barkin

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German

Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who

Asian markets mixed after Wall Street rally
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an

Japan PM: NKorea sanctions warning over rockets | 19 March 2009
VeriSign to buy Certicom; RIM backs out | Technology | | 24 January 2009
Deadly gas explosion destroys building in Calif. | 31 July 2010

Christian Albin, 'culinary Rip van Winkle,' dies | 14 June 2009

Forum Views () Forum Replies ()

Read more with google mobile : Gunman attacks Jewish school in France, four killed |

Edition: U.S. Africa Arabic Argentina Brazil Canada China France Germany India Italy Japan Latin America Mexico Russia Spain United Kingdom Home Business Business Home Economy Technology Media Small Business Legal Deals Earnings Social Pulse Business Video The Freeland File Markets Markets Home U.S. Markets European Markets Asian Markets Global Market Data Indices M&A Stocks Bonds Currencies Commodities Futures Funds peHUB World World Home U.S. Brazil China Euro Zone Japan Mexico Russia India Insight World Video Reuters Investigates Decoder Politics Politics Home Election 2012 Issues 2012 Candidates 2012 Tales from the Trail Political Punchlines Supreme Court Politics Video Tech Technology Home MediaFile Science Tech Video Tech Tonic Social Pulse Opinion Opinion Home Chrystia Freeland John Lloyd Felix Salmon Jack Shafer David Rohde Bernd Debusmann Nader Mousavizadeh Lucy P. Marcus David Cay Johnston Bethany McLean Edward Hadas Hugo Dixon Ian Bremmer Mohamed El-Erian Lawrence Summers Susan Glasser The Great Debate Steven Brill Jack & Suzy Welch Breakingviews Equities Credit Private Equity M&A Macro & Markets Politics Breakingviews Video Money Money Home Tax Break Lipper Awards 2012 Global Investing MuniLand Unstructured Finance Linda Stern Mark Miller John Wasik James Saft Analyst Research Alerts Watchlist Portfolio Stock Screener Fund Screener Personal Finance Video Money Clip Investing 201 Life Health Sports Arts Faithworld Business Traveler Entertainment Oddly Enough Lifestyle Video Pictures Pictures Home Reuters Photographers Full Focus Video Reuters TV Reuters News Article Comments (0) Slideshow Video Full Focus Editor's choice Our top photos from the last 24 hours. Full Article Images of February Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Drug-resistant "white plague" lurks among rich and poor 19 Mar 2012 Apple rewards investors with dividend, share buyback | 19 Mar 2012 Afghan shooting suspect "doesn't remember" incident: lawyer | 19 Mar 2012 Disney projects $200 million "John Carter" loss | 1:37am EDT Bangladesh's "teenage" brothels hold dark steroid secret 19 Mar 2012 Discussed 186 Dozens arrested at Occupy’s 6-month anniversary rally 154 Exclusive: U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release 119 Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood Watched Benghazi marks first anniversary of victory over Gaddafi forces Mon, Mar 19 2012 Clive Owen hopes to spook audiences with new film Mon, Mar 19 2012 Romney calls Santorum an 'economic lightweight' Mon, Mar 19 2012 Gunman attacks Jewish school in France, four killed Tweet Share this Email Print Related News French police scour country for Jewish school gunman Mon, Mar 19 2012 New York police tighten security at Jewish sites Mon, Mar 19 2012 From Middle East to France, a Jewish school's journey Mon, Mar 19 2012 Analysis & Opinion Scary oil Afghanistan : the creeping enemy within Related Topics World » Related Video Thousands mourn deadly attack in Jewish community Mon, Mar 19 2012 1 of 17. A school student is escorted as he leaves the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012 after a man on a scooter opened fire outside the school. Credit: Reuters/Jean-Philippe Arles By John Irish and Guillaume Serries TOULOUSE, France | Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:42am EDT TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, days after killing three soldiers nearby, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to put the region on its highest terrorism alert. With the attacker, who escaped on a motorbike, still on the loose, police stepped up a manhunt in the city of a million people in southwestern France. Sarkozy said the killings and those of the soldiers, one of Caribbean and two of Muslim origin, in two attacks last week, appeared to be motivated by racism. Mourners gathered for an overnight vigil at the Ozar Hatorah school in a leafy residential neighborhood in Toulouse, where the gunman went on the rampage on Monday morning, killing a 30-year old rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his children aged four and five, and another child, the daughter of the school's principal. The 7-year-old girl, Miriam Monsonego, died in her father's arms as medics tried to resuscitate her. "He came on his motorbike, got off and shot a bullet in the air... Then he got out another gun and started shooting at everyone, at the children. He chased us into the school," Baroukh, a Jewish man living nearby who had come for morning prayers, told Reuters, declining to give his family name. Military police reinforcements were rushed into the area and guards were deployed at mosques and synagogues in the region. In the United States, New York police ramped up security at synagogues and other Jewish institutions citywide. Video surveillance footage showed the gunman bursting into the school and shooting one child at close range in the head, before fleeing on a motorbike, said Nicolas Yardeni, regional head of the French Jewish umbrella association, CRIF. It was the worst anti-Semitic incident in France since August 1982, when six people were killed in a grenade attack and subsequent shooting at the Goldenberg restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood of central Paris. France's 600,000-strong Jewish community is Europe's largest. Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, the Socialist opposing him in his uphill bid for re-election in May, both rushed to the scene. "Barbarity, savagery and cruelty cannot win, hate cannot win. The republic is much stronger than all this," Sarkozy said, announcing a minute of silence in schools on Tuesday. "One can imagine that the bloodthirsty madness was linked to racism," Sarkozy said, declaring he would suspend his campaign until Wednesday, when he would attend the soldiers' funeral. Sarkozy said the gun used in the school shooting was the same one used to kill the three soldiers by a lone gunman who also escaped on a motor bike. He said the terrorism alert in the region around Toulouse had been raised to scarlet, its highest level. Some 120 investigators were working on a manhunt for the killer and had already identified the license plate of the motor bike used in the attack, police sources said. The gunman used a second gun when the first jammed, the Toulouse prosecutor said. Police cordoned off the school, where well-wishers had begun to lay wreaths of flowers outside the bullet-marked walls as a line of police stood guard. Hearses arrived carrying the bodies of the victims for an overnight vigil attended by sobbing parents and relatives. Hundreds of mourners in prayer caps gathered at the main mosque in Toulouse, a bustling university town which is a hub for Europe's aerospace industry including aviation manufacturer Airbus. In Paris, thousands staged a silent evening march in central Place de la Republique, while political leaders joined a solemn remembrance ceremony at the grand synagogue. "HORROR" "I saw two people dead in front of the school, an adult and a child ... Inside, it was a vision of horror, the bodies of two small children," one father, searching for his son at the school among crowds of distraught parents and children, told RTL radio. "How can they attack something as sacred as a school?" As messages of condolence poured in from across Europe, representatives of France's Jewish community voiced their solidarity. In the past decade, there has been a string of attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools, which educate some 30,500 children in France. "I am horrified by what happened outside a Jewish school in Toulouse today. It has bruised by body and my soul," said Gilles Bernheim, France's chief rabbi. The Israeli embassy in Paris said the bodies of all four victims would be flown to Israel for burial as soon as possible at the request of their families. "Today we had a savage crime in France that gunned down French Jews, among them children," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters in Jerusalem. "I'm sure that Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, and his government will do their utmost to find the killer and we in Israel will do everything to help them in this task. " Public prosecutor Valet said investigators were studying video evidence from the school shooting and the attack on Thursday in the nearby town of Montauban that killed two soldiers and left a third seriously injured. The three men, aged between 24 and 28, were shot while in uniform as they tried to withdraw money from a cash machine close to the barracks of the 17th parachute regiment. A female witness told French television the masked attacker appeared to have a tattoo on his face when he lifted his visor. A third soldier, aged 30, was killed the previous weekend in Toulouse. In the wake of the attacks, French media reported that two members of the 17th regiment had been expelled for neo-Nazism in 2008, prompting speculation of a racist motivation. The shootings could thrust security back to the top of the agenda in a bitter electoral campaign that has been dominated by issues of taxation and immigration. "This is not just one school, Jews, or just one city which have been affected but all of France," Hollande said in Toulouse. Stephane Rozes, head of CAP political consultancy, said the shootings were unlikely to have a decisive impact on the election outcome as all candidates had strongly condemned the violence, including far right leader Marine Le Pen. Le Pen said politics and the election campaign should be kept out at times like this. "There is no more right or left, there is only the French people, wounded in its heart." (Reporting by Guillaume Serries and John Irish in Toulouse; Leigh Thomas, Thierry Leveque, Nicolas Bertin, Lionel Laurent and Chine Labbe in Paris; Jeffrey Heller and Maayan Lubel in Jerusalem; writing by Daniel Flynn and Geert De Clercq; editing by Philippa Fletcher) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. Edition: U.S. Africa Arabic Argentina Brazil Canada China France Germany India Italy Japan Latin America Mexico Russia Spain United Kingdom Back to top Reuters.com Business Markets World Politics Technology Opinion Money Pictures Videos Site Index Legal Bankruptcy Law California Legal New York Legal Securities Law Support & Contact Support Corrections Advertise With Us Connect with Reuters Twitter Facebook LinkedIn RSS Podcast Newsletters Mobile About Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices Copyright Our Flagship financial information platform incorporating Reuters Insider An ultra-low latency infrastructure for electronic trading and data distribution A connected approach to governance, risk and compliance Our next generation legal research platform Our global tax workstation Thomsonreuters.com About Thomson Reuters Investor Relations Careers Contact Us Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.

Other News on Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Greece's Venizelos quits as finance minister to lead party to polls |
Egypt parliament votes to pay uprising victims |
Settlers grab Palestinian water springs: U.N. report |
U.N. nuclear watchdog says it received North Korea invitation |
Avalanche kills five skiers in Norway |
U.S. sets duties on steel wheels from China |
Adobe revenue slows ahead of upgrades, shares fall |
Disney projects $200 million 'John Carter' loss |
Director Kevin Smith dishes advice in new memoir |
Irish love story 'Once' explodes onto Broadway |
Clashes hit Syrian capital; West wants united front |
Gunman attacks Jewish school in France, four killed |
Afghan shooting suspect doesn't remember incident: lawyer |
Pakistan parliament committee demands end to U.S. drone strikes |
Explosions across Iraq kill at least 29 |
Monti's moment of truth, facing trade unions |
Of diapers and drugs, Iran's trouble paying bills |
Rape, torture plague Myanmar's Kachin conflict: rights group |
China, North Korea hold 2nd meeting on planned rocket launch: state media |
Chavez sees plot to kill Venezuela opposition rival |
Apple widens its lead in survey of app developers |
Apple rewards investors with dividend, share buyback |
Facebook underwriters to get 1.1 percent fee: source |
Disney projects $200 million John Carter loss |
Mistrial declared in Desperate Housewives trial |
Irish love story Once explodes onto Broadway |
Hollywood's big appetite for Hunger Games |
Oprah Winfrey's OWN network lays off 30 in restructuring |
Iran will attack to defend itself: Khamenei |
Bahrain says significant progress made on reforms |
Israel to phase out civilian atomic reactor by 2018 |
Protests loom as Hong Kong braces for new leader |
Thousands attend funeral of Egypt's Pope |
Kuwait says Iran has assured it will not shut Hormuz |
Syrian cartoonist paid price for getting personal |
Windows Phone surpasses Symbian in Britain: survey |
French data watchdog questions Google on privacy |
Cisco to secure employees' personal devices |
Apple iPad investigated for reports of excess heat |
Japan's scandal-hit Olympus to launch new medical devices |
George Michael fighting fit, to re-start tour |
German director wins prestigious Ibsen theatre prize |
Greece at new risk of being pushed off euro
Bodies of missing Tenn. mom, Jo Ann Bain, and daughter found
Female Breasts Are Bigger Than Ever
AMD Trinity Accelerated Processing Units Now in Volume Production
The Avengers (2012 film), made the second biggest opening- and single-day gross of all-time
AMD to Start Production of piledriver
Ivy Bridge Quad-Core, Four-Thread Desktop CPUs
Islamists Protest Lady Gaga's Concert in Indonesia
Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air
ECB boosts loans to 1 trillion Euro to stop credit crunch
Egypt : Mohammed Morsi won with 52 percent
What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up
AMD Launches AMD Embedded R-Series APU Platform
Fed Should not Ignore Emerging Market Crisis
Fed casts shadow over India, emerging markets
Why are Chinese tourists so rude? A few insights

USD EUR - 1 year graph		BlogMeter 1.01