(*)  Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID) and Groupes d'Intervention 
        de la Police Nationale (GIPN) are French special forces police units.

“The scooter assassin, Mohamed Merah, insisted on writing his own bloody script to the end. After a 32-hour siege, the man who threatened to bring France “to its knees” died in a hail of police bullets yesterday while jumping from a window firing an automatic weapon.

It was confirmed that the 23-year-old French citizen, of Algerian origin, made chilling videos of his three attacks in the Toulouse area [in southern France] in the past fortnight, using a miniature camera draped around his neck. Footage recovered from his flat by police shows him executing, at point-blank range, three Jewish children and a teacher on Monday and three off-duty soldiers in two attacks earlier this month.”