France Shooter Did Film Killings

Also: Mohamed Merah was on the US no-fly list
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 22, 2012 2:12 PM CDT
France Shooter Did Film Killings
Forensic officers search in a car in front of the building where Mohamed Merah, 23, was living on the first floor in Toulouse, southwestern France.   (Getty Images)

The gunman who terrorized France in recent days filmed all three of his shootings (as suspected) and claimed to have posted them online, a French prosecutor confirmed today. Mohamed Merah, 23, filmed his alleged shootings with a camera strapped to his chest harness, the prosecutor told Sky News. In the first, which depicts the shooting of a soldier on March 11, the gunman can be heard crying, “You kill my brothers; I kill you.”

Merah reportedly claimed to have been linked to al-Qaeda, and US intelligence backs up that assertion; an intelligence official tells CNN that Merah was on the US no-fly list because he'd attended an al-Qaeda training camp. (More shooting stories.)

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