French police arrest two in Toulouse killings probe
French police arrested two people on Tuesday in the hunt
for accomplices of an al Qaida-inspired gunman who went on a killing spree in
March, a judicial source said.
The two men aged 29 and 30 were detained in southwest
France, where gunman Mohamed Merah killed three soldiers, a rabbi and three
Jewish children before he was shot dead by elite police forces besieging his
home.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday he
did not believe Merah had been a "lone wolf", but had received help
from overseas and been radicalized in France.
One of the gunman's brothers, Abdelkader Merah, was
arrested on the day police surrounded his brother's apartment in the city of
Toulouse in March. He denies being an accomplice in the killings but remains in
detention during what has been deemed an anti-terrorism inquiry.
France's top anti-terrorism judge said earlier this week
it needs more robust local policing, better intelligence sharing and the
ability to infiltrate small radical Islamist groups if it hopes to fight new
security threats at home in the aftermath of the Merah affair.
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