Southern France shootings

A vehicle, that could carry the corpse of self-professed Al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah, leaves the Cite Belle Paule area after the assault on Merah's besieged flat, on March 22, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France. Mohamed Merah "jumped from the window still shooting," Interior Minister Claude Gueant told journalists, adding that Merah had attacked police "with extreme violence" after bursting out of the bathroom.

RAID special police forces unit leave after the assault on the besieged flat of self-professed Al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah — Getty Images/Pascal Pavani

French members of the RAID special police forces unit leave after the assault on the besieged flat of self-professed Al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah, on March 22, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France.

French special intervention police officers leave the area in Toulouse, France Thursday March 22, 2012 where an Islamic extremist died Thursday after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shootout with police.

French firefighters leave after a police assault on a suspected Islamic extremist holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, southwestern France, Thursday, March 22, 2012.

A woman speaks with a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in a killing spree is holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, France, March 22, 2012. Mohamed Merah, France's chief suspect in the shooting of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers in three separate incidents, wants to "die with weapons in his hands," the interior minister said as a standoff between the gunman and hundreds of police entered a second day.

A French special intervention police officer, left, arrives at an apartment building in Toulouse, France, March 22, 2012, where Mohamed Merah, a suspect in the shooting at he Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, had been holed up.

A woman and children are escorted by a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in a killing spree is holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, France, March 22, 2012.

Journalists wait as French police officers and firefighters and members of the RAID special police forces unit contain the apartment block where Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings, was holed up March 22, 2012, in Toulouse, France. Suspected gunman Mohamed Merah is a 23-year-old French petty criminal of Algerian origin who spent time in Pakistan and Afghanistan and claims to be a militant for al Qaeda.

A GIPN van (French National Police Intervention Group) arrives March 22, 2012, near the place where members of the RAID special police forces unit contain the apartment block where Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings, was holed up March 22, 2012, in Toulouse, France.

Journalists stand at night next to an apartment building where Mohamed Merah, a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school, is barricaded in Toulouse, France, March 22, 2012.

Members of the RAID special police forces unit are seen in a car as they leave the apartment block where Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings, was holed up March 21, 2012, in Toulouse, France.

Police officers stand near a building in Toulouse, France, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in an apartment building.

French police officers and a soldier stand close to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was barricaded in Toulouse, France, March 21, 2012. — AP Photo/Christophe Ena

Police officers stand near a building in Toulouse, France, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in an apartment building. A French gunman claiming links to al Qaeda and suspected in the killings of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three paratroopers barricaded himself in an apartment after a pre-dawn police raid erupted into a firefight.

Police evacuate people in a bus as they leave their homes next to the building in Toulouse, France, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted. A father and his two sons were among four people who died March 19, 2012, when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in the city in southwest France.

Family members react during a funeral for Toulouse shooting victims at a cemetery in Jerusalem March 21, 2012. A rabbi and three children gunned down at a Jewish school in France were buried in a Jerusalem cemetery. The four were killed March 19, 2012, in the French city of Toulouse when a man on a motorcycle opened fire with two handguns outside the school.

French police officers and a soldier stand close to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in Toulouse, southern France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

French police secure the area where they exchanged fire and were negotiating with a gunman who claims connections to al Qaeda and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France.

Police officers and firefighters stand near a building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was cornered by police.

Ambulances and police vehicles are parked in the street of Toulouse — AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere

Ambulances and police vehicles are parked in Toulouse, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was holed up.

A police officer stands next to the building in Toulouse, France, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was hiding.

Police blocks the entrance of a street in Toulouse — AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere

Police block the entrance of a street in Toulouse, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school was located.

Police officers stand in a street in Toulouse, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school and two other incidents was cornered.

A man puts teddy bear at a makeshift shrine, at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

An armed police officer stands guard at the entrance of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

Students comfort each other at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

French Police officers stand guard at the entrance of a Jewish school in Paris Monday, March 19, 2012 after a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France. A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday in the incident, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday.

French schoolchildren leave a Jewish school in Paris Monday, March 19, 2012 after the French Interior Minister ordered security to be tightened around all French Jewish schools following an attack on one in Toulouse, in southwest France.

French Police officer stands guard at the entrance of a Jewish school in Paris Monday, March 19, 2012 after a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France. A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday in the incident, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday.

An armed French police officer stands guard at the entrance of the Rambam Maimonide Jewish school in Boulogne Billancourt, outside Paris, Monday, March 19, 2012. France's prime minister Francois Fillon says he has asked for all schools and religious buildings to be secured in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse.

Teenagers and their family react at the "Ozar Hatorah" Jewish boarding school after the shooting, on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France.

Teenagers, surrounded by policemen, leave by bus the "Ozar Hatorah" Jewish boarding school after the shooting, on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, southwestern France.

A student, center, flanked by an unidentified woman and a police officer leave a Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

An unidentified man comforts schoolchildren as they leave their Jewish private school after a gunman opened fire, killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

Police stand guard at the scene of a fatal shooting outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France.

Police officers gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse — AP Photo/Bruno Martin

Police officers gather at the site of a shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

Rabbi Rav Gabriel directs families through at the scene of a fatal shooting — Getty Images/Gilles Bouquillon

Rabbi Rav Gabriel directs families at the scene of a fatal shooting outside the Ozar Hatorah school on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France.

unidentified woman and police officers as they leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulous — AP Photo/Manu Blondeau

A student, second from left, is flanked by an unidentified woman and police officers as they leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

Police stand guard at the scene where a gunman opened fire outside the Ozar Hatorah school on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France, killing at least four people.

Police officers gather evidence at the site of a shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

School children and their parents leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

School children are led away from the scene of a fatal shooting after a gunman opened fire outside the Ozar Hatorah school on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France.

Police officers gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.

School children are led away from the scene where a gunman opened fire outside the Ozar Hatorah school on March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France.

Officials gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse — AP Photo/Bruno Martin

Police officers and firefighters gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012.

Police officers and soldiers are seen at the site where three French soldiers were shot in Mautauban, southern France, March 15, 2012.