French Gunman's Brother 'Proud'

[Forgiven]

French gunman's brother quizzed at Paris intelligence HQ - Yahoo! News



By Brian Love | Reuters
3/24/12

PARIS (Reuters) - The brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who murdered seven people was questioned at France's domestic intelligence hub in Paris on Saturday after he said he was "proud" of his sibling's killing spree, according to a police source.

President Nicolas Sarkozy met ministers and police chiefs to discuss the consequences of Mohamed Merah's massacre, which has raised troubling national security questions four weeks ahead of a presidential election.

Sarkozy is facing an uphill re-election battle and his chief intelligence adviser sought to head off media questions about the handling of the affair in the southwest city of Toulouse.

Abdelkader Merah, elder brother of the 23-year-old gunman who died in a hail of police gunfire on Thursday, was taken by car from police barracks in Toulouse, where he was first interrogated, for transfer to the capital for more questioning, along with his wife, a judicial source said.

Police found explosives in a car Abdelkader owned, according to the public prosecutor leading the case. He was already known to security services for having helped smuggle jihadist militants into Iraq in 2007, prosecutor Francois Molins said.

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Around 30 people, mostly young girls, held a brief rally in a heavily immigrant district of Toulouse on Saturday in memory of Mohamed Merah, who they said was one of their own regardless of what he had done.

"I think what much have influenced him was those multiple trips (abroad), that he was unable to deal with all that," said one girl, who wore a full-face veil - which is outlawed in public in France - and declined to give her name.

[mattfivefour]

Of course he is! It's the Islamic way. Can't be any prouder than when you kill "infidels". Even better when they are Jews.

The second I heard the very first news report, I knew it was a Muslim radical. The media and the officials were saying at the time that the killer could have been everything from a simple serial killer, to a white supremacist. Everything, that is, except a Muslim. Nobody even breathed that word! But I told Vicki to wait. It would come out that he was likely Arabic, definitely Muslim.

[OliveOilMom]

I heard about it on NPR and they mentioned that it was widely believed that the gunman was a fundamentalist Muslim extremist. Even NPR did.

I can understand your family still loving you even though you commit such horrible crimes, but why would the community support him? I certainly wouldn't stand behind someone who shared a belief or view that I did, if they did something like that. Of course if it were my child who did it, I would want him to get mental treatment and not be executed or anything, but I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to feel the same way about him. Parental love is the strongest human emotion there is, in my opinion, so I can see a parent still loving them, but I certainly can't see anyone being proud of those actions.

Why is the full face veil illegal in public over there? That seems a bit silly to me. I can understand having to take it off for ID photos and all, but people should be able to wear whatever they want to in public, as long as it doesn't show parts that are required by law to be covered (if anything is required to be covered in France, that is lol)

If the fundamentalist extremists Muslims just want to either kill or convert all of us, their actions are sure not looking good toward the conversion aspect. I'm not going to convert but it's just common sense to be approachable and nice if you want someone to learn about your religion. Nobody is going to join a religion that requires you to go around killing people for their beliefs. At least, nobody sane is.

[FaithInChrist]

I believe the ban on the full face veil is an attempt for the French to regain some of the control they have lost by allowing so many Muslims to migrate to their country. They are so close to being taken over by the fundamentalist Muslims that they are having to create laws to protect themselves from them.

[OliveOilMom]

I believe the ban on the full face veil is an attempt for the French to regain some of the control they have lost by allowing so many Muslims to migrate to their country. They are so close to being taken over by the fundamentalist Muslims that they are having to create laws to protect themselves from them.

I thought it might be something to do with ID. People not being recognized if they are wanted for something, or something like that. I didn't know if they have a problem with things like that happening over there or not.

[Forgiven]

I thought it might be something to do with ID. People not being recognized if they are wanted for something, or something like that. I didn't know if they have a problem with things like that happening over there or not.

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[Chris]

French Gunman's Brother 'Proud'

Just sick. I wonder if he is proud of where is brother is now??