{"article":{"id":252113,"heading":"&quot;Mission accomplished&quot;: Le Figaro celebrates the extrajudicial execution of Mohamed Merah","author":"Cem Ert\u00fcr","created":"2012-03-25 11:45:49","modified":"2026-10-25 17:02:54","last_modified":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:02:54","article":"<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Le\r\nFigaro, 23 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mission\r\naccomplished<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n10:31 am: &nbsp;After a 32-hour siege, the assault was launched by\r\nthe RAID\r\nand GIPN teams (*).<br>\r\n12:36 pm: &nbsp;The operation is over. The men leave the site.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;\">&nbsp;\r\n(*)&nbsp;\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Recherche\r\nAssistance Intervention Dissuasion<\/span>\r\n(RAID) and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Groupes\r\nd'Intervention&nbsp;<br>\r\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; de la Police\r\nNationale<\/span>\r\n(GIPN) are French special forces police units.<br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Le\r\nFigaro, 22 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mohamed\r\nMerah &ndash; 23-year-old Islamist terrorist&nbsp;\r\n&ndash; 7 dead<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lib&eacute;ration,\r\n22 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The\r\npath of hatred<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nSerial offender and supposed perpetrator of the Montauban and Toulouse\r\nmassacres made trips to Afghanistan<br>\r\nand Pakistan.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">La\r\nCroix, 22 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">End\r\nof a murderous drift<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe prime suspect of the assassination of three Jewish children and\r\nfour adults was surrounded by the<br>\r\npolice as military funerals took place in Montauban and the four Jewish victims were buried in Jerusalem.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Le\r\nParisien, 21 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How\r\nthe police hunt down the public enemy N&deg;1<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n[Note: The headlines have been translated from French by Cem\r\nErt&uuml;r]<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n_____________________________________________________________________________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana;\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana;\">\"Mission\r\naccomplished\": French daily Le Figaro celebrates the extrajudicial\r\nexecution of Mohamed Merah<\/span><br>\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);\"><br>\r\n<br>\r\n[propaganda alert]<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nby Cem Ert&uuml;r<br>\r\n<br>\r\n23 March 2012<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n________________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/intent-on-murder-to-the-last-toulouse-scooter-assassin-dies-in-hail-of-gunfire-7582608.html<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\nexcerpt from:<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\r\n&nbsp;Intent on murder to the last: Toulouse scooter assassin dies\r\nin hail of\r\ngunfire<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nSerial killer shot as he leapt from window firing weapon<br>\r\n<br style=\"font-style: italic;\">\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">by\r\nJohn Lichfield, The Independent, 23 March 2012<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&ldquo;The\r\nscooter assassin, Mohamed Merah, insisted on writing his\r\nown bloody script to the end. After a 32-hour siege, the man who\r\nthreatened to bring France &ldquo;to its knees&rdquo; died in a\r\nhail of police bullets yesterday while jumping from a window firing an\r\nautomatic weapon.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt was confirmed that the 23-year-old French citizen, of Algerian\r\norigin, made chilling videos of his three attacks in the Toulouse area\r\n[in southern France] in the past fortnight, using a miniature camera\r\ndraped around his neck. Footage recovered from his flat by police shows\r\nhim executing, at point-blank range, three Jewish children and a\r\nteacher on Monday and three off-duty soldiers in two attacks earlier\r\nthis month.&rdquo;<br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n______________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">related\r\narticles:<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sarkozy:\r\nProsecute and imprison readers of\r\n&ldquo;extremist&rdquo; websites<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nby Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, 23 March 2012<br>\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.infowars.com\/sarkozy-prosecute-and-imprison-readers-of-extremist-websites\/<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">French\r\nterror attack: All the hallmarks of an intelligence psy-op and\r\nfalse flag<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nby Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, 21 March 2012<br>\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.infowars.com\/french-terror-attack-all-the-hallmarks-of-an-intelligence-psy-op-and-false-flag\/<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n______________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">from\r\nthe archives:<\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who\r\nreally bombed Paris?<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nby Naima Bouteldja, Red Pepper, 1 September 2005<br>\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/Who-really-bombed-Paris&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n______________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">propaganda\r\nalert:<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">British\r\npress: Widow of 7\/7 bomber hunted in terror alert<\/span><br>\r\n<br>\r\nby Cem Ert&uuml;r, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center,\r\n2 March 2012<br>\r\n<br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/03\/02\/18708561.php<br>\r\n&nbsp;<br>\r\n<br>\r\n______________________________<br>\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2012\/03\/23\/18709987.php","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"23-year-old French Algerian Mohamed Merah was killed by a massive special forces police operation during which over 300 bullets were shot. The mainstream media paved the way for this extrajudicial execution by demonizing Merah, without presenting any evidence, as the perpetrator of two recent \u201cterrorist attacks\u201d in southern France.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/03\/252113.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}