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Toulouse shooting

This file photo taken on March 19, 2012, in Toulouse, France, shows policemen marking the area in front of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where jihadist Mohammed Merah killed three children and a teacher. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)
February 10, 2023, 12:18 pm
Man charged with making threats against French Jewish school, site of 2012 shooting
Authorities place 34-year-old under judicial supervision after he made 163 threatening phone calls in a month, including to Toulouse Jewish school, hospital and a Marseille surgeon
By JTA
This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)
March 16, 2022, 6:32 pm
Herzog to join Macron in marking decade since Toulouse Jewish school attack
President receives invitation from French counterpart, will travel with first lady next week for memorial of jihadist shooting that left 3 soldiers, rabbi and 3 children dead
By ToI Staff
French lawyer Eric Dupond-Moretti attends a press conference organized by French watchdog Reporters without Borders in Paris, February 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
July 7, 2020, 7:41 am
New French justice minister, a lawyer, defended Toulouse terrorist accomplices
Government shakeup sees many new ministers appointed; new interior minister faces a rape investigation, but Macron says probe not an obstacle to his appointment
By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton
Latifa Ibn Ziaten and CRIF President Roger Cukierman at the CRIF national convention in Paris, November. 16, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
June 11, 2019, 11:47 pm
Anti-Semitic graffiti found at home of Muslim victim of Toulouse killer
Mother of soldier murdered by terrorist Mohammed Merah before deadly shooting at Jewish school in 2012 finds ‘Your time is coming soon, dirty Jew’ daubed on house
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, left in sash, attends a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2012 Toulouse Jewish school shooting, on May 19, 2019, by naming two alleys in the city after the three victims. (Anne Hidalgo/Twitter/via JTA)
May 21, 2019, 10:45 pm
Paris alleys dedicated to children killed in Toulouse Jewish school attack
‘The families wanted these plaques to be in a square, a place alive with laughter and swings,’ Paris mayor says at dedication; Toulouse to debate its own tribute
By Marcy Oster
This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)
April 19, 2019, 1:36 am
Brother of Toulouse killer given 30 years for aiding Jewish school attack
Abdelkader Merah found to have helped in 2012 terror spree in which soldiers, rabbi and three children were killed; prosecution had requested life term
By AFP
This file photo taken on March 25, 2012, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows France's Jewish scout placing flowers under a banner paying tribute to the victims of jihadist Mohammed Merah who killed three children and a teacher at the 'Ozar Hatorah' Jewish school. (AFP/Eric Cabanis)
April 5, 2019, 7:55 am
French police say terror suspect inspired by Toulouse Jewish school killer
Man who planned to shoot up Paris nursery school says he is ‘heir of Mohammed Merah,’ a terrorist who killed three children and a rabbi in 2012
By Marcy Oster
A man kneels to light a candle beneath a police cordon outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, after a shooting there left 11 people dead on October 27, 2018 (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
October 28, 2018, 8:24 am
Pittsburgh shooting is latest in series of recent attacks on Jewish institutions
From Seattle to Toulouse to Istanbul, attackers, whether neo-Nazis or jihadists, have repeatedly targeted synagogues, schools and community centers
By Agencies
A woman carries a poster reading "I am a Jew" as she attends a silent march to honor an 85-year-old woman who escaped the Nazis 76 years ago but was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, apparently targeted because she was Jewish, and to denounce racism, in Paris, France, on March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
April 22, 2018, 4:03 am
‘A quiet ethnic purging’: 300 French personalities protest ‘new anti-Semitism’
Public manifesto, co-signed by politicians and celebrities, decries ‘Islamist radicalization’
By AFP
Illustrative: Police gather around the apartment building where Mohammed Merah barricaded himself in Toulouse in March 2012. (AP/Bruno Martin)
November 10, 2017, 7:21 pm
Three hurt in vehicle attack near Toulouse
Wounded are Chinese students; police say driver acted ‘deliberately,’ was not on a list of known extremists
By AFP
A court sketch made on November 2, 2017, shows Abdelkader Merah (R) on the last day of his trial at the Paris' courthouse. (AFP Photo/Benoit Peyruco)
November 2, 2017, 10:31 pm
Brother of French Jewish school shooter gets 20 years for terror ties
Abdelkader Merah convicted of terrorist conspiracy, but cleared of helping brother Mohammed carry out 7 Toulouse shootings including 3 Jewish children
By Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Clare BYRNE
A courtroom sketch from October 2, 2017, shows Abdelkader Merah in a Paris courthouse during his trial for his complicity in the series of shootings committed by his terrorist brother Mohamed in Toulouse and Montauban in 2012. (AFP Photo/Benoit Peyruco)
November 2, 2017, 4:53 am
Judgement day for brother of French Jewish school shooter
Abdelkader Merah is accused of knowingly facilitating his brother’s terror attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse in the name of al-Qaeda
By Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Clare BYRNE
Jonathan Sandler, shot to death March 19 in Toulouse, France, pictured with his two slain sons and with his wife (who was not hurt in the attack). (photo credit: via Facebook)
October 31, 2017, 10:54 am
Life term sought for brother of jihadist who killed French Jews in school attack
Prosecutors say Abdelkader Merah had considerable influence over his younger sibling, Mohamed, who shot dead a rabbi, 3 children and 3 soldiers
By AFP
The French city of Toulouse's city hall. The mayor's office in the city referred the parents of a child to prosecutors for naming him 'Jihad' in August 2017. (CC BY-SA .30, Benh Lieu Song, Wikipedia)
October 23, 2017, 6:36 pm
Is ‘Jihad’ an acceptable name? French judge to rule
Case in Toulouse comes after similar incident in Nice in which parents named child after Jewish day school terrorist Mohammed Merah
By AFP
Zoulika Aziri the mother of the Merah brothers leaves the courthouse in Paris, France, Wednesday, October 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
October 19, 2017, 10:25 pm
Trial of Toulouse shooter’s brother reveals chaotic family of a French jihadist
Local woman who knew the five Merah children during the 1990s recalls how their mother would call her a ‘dirty Jew’
By Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Adam PLOWRIGHT
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