If you've read my Twitter feed you would know that my home Internet connection has been down for most of the day. It came back again around 20:00 and it's now around 22:45.
Anyway the siege of Toulouse between the French police and Mohammed Merah, the suspected spree killer has now ended. At around 10:30 (11:30CET) today (22/3/12) police mounted a raid on the suspect's apartment leading to an intense exchange of automatic gunfire which left two police officers wounded. Merah then tried escaping the apartment by jumping out of a window and was shot in the head by a police marksman. He didn't survive.
Obviously I don't have enough of the facts to comment but questions have to be asked over why the police decided to move in. With Merah cornered in an apartment with limited food, no running water and limited opportunity to sleep I didn't see the siege going on for a particularly long time. It also would have been useful if they were able to question Merah to find out if he was proper Islamic terrorist or just some sort of Al Qaeda reject. Instead though it looks like we're going to have to endure endless conspiracy theories.
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