The man told police negotiators that the killings of the children and a rabbi at a Jewish school on Monday, as well as the fatal shootings of three French paratroopers days earlier, were to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and to protest French military deployments abroad, according to investigators and Interior Minister Claude Guéant, who was at the site of the raid on Wednesday morning.
The suspect, identified as a French national from Toulouse who said he belonged to Al Qaeda, fired several volleys at security forces ringing the five-floor apartment building in which he had barricaded himself, about two miles south of the Jewish school. Three officers were slightly wounded, Mr. Guéant said.
Speaking on French television, the interior minister said authorities were “certain” that the suspect was the gunman responsible for all seven deaths and that it was possible that he would surrender later Wednesday.
He added that although the suspect had thrown a handgun out a window, he was still armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and other military weapons.
The suspect had traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Mr. Guéant said, and described himself as a mujahedeen, or freedom fighter. The man had been under surveillance by the French domestic intelligence service “for a long while” before the shootings of the paratroopers “though nothing whatsoever allowed us to think he was at the point of committing a criminal act,” the interior minister said.
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