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Sarkozy asks TV channels not to show shootings film
President Nicolas Sarkozy urges television networks not to broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body.
March 27, 2012
(REUTERS) Paris - Qatar-based Al Jazeera is considering whether to show the film, received at its Paris bureau on a memory stick late on Monday, the network's Paris bureau chief Zied Tarrouche said.
Gunman Mohamed Merah, 23, told police before he they shot him dead last week that he had recorded the images as he killed three Jewish children, a rabbi and three soldiers at point-blank range in the city of Toulouse and nearby Montauban.