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French terror suspect wants 'to die with weapons in hand': Minister
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March 22, 2012, Thursday
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FRENCH Interior Minister Claude Gueant this morning said the besieged al-Qaida-linked serial shooter who killed seven people in southern France wanted "to die with weapons in hand," local media reported.
According to the BFMTV, the police had no contact during the night with the 24-year-old suspect Mohamed Merah, who has been holed up in an apartment in Toulous and locked in a standoff with the police for nearly 30 hours.
"We have one priority: to take him alive so that he can surrender to face justice," Gueant told RTL radio, "We hope he is still alive."
The BFMTV said Merah, who initially offered to give himself up, no longer planned to surrender, and seemed determined, quoting sources familiar with the investigation.
Police hoping to capture Merah alive have set off sporadic blasts throughout the night and into the morning, in what the interior minister described as a tactic to pressure the suspect.
The latest explosions was heard at 5:30 am local time, the BFMTV reported.
The siege is part of France's biggest manhunt in some 20 years.
A French citizen of Algerian origin, Merah allegedly killed three French paratroops and four Jewish, including three children, in Toulouse and Montauban, to protest French army's involvement overseas.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the gunman, who had planned to kill two other policemen and a soldier, "boasts that he has brought France to its knees" and had no regrets "except not having more time to kill more people."
According to the BFMTV, the police had no contact during the night with the 24-year-old suspect Mohamed Merah, who has been holed up in an apartment in Toulous and locked in a standoff with the police for nearly 30 hours.
"We have one priority: to take him alive so that he can surrender to face justice," Gueant told RTL radio, "We hope he is still alive."
The BFMTV said Merah, who initially offered to give himself up, no longer planned to surrender, and seemed determined, quoting sources familiar with the investigation.
Police hoping to capture Merah alive have set off sporadic blasts throughout the night and into the morning, in what the interior minister described as a tactic to pressure the suspect.
The latest explosions was heard at 5:30 am local time, the BFMTV reported.
The siege is part of France's biggest manhunt in some 20 years.
A French citizen of Algerian origin, Merah allegedly killed three French paratroops and four Jewish, including three children, in Toulouse and Montauban, to protest French army's involvement overseas.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the gunman, who had planned to kill two other policemen and a soldier, "boasts that he has brought France to its knees" and had no regrets "except not having more time to kill more people."
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