President Nicolas Sarkozy, in mid-campaign for re-election, said Monday French security services would launch a hunt for Islamic extremists following the killing spree by an Islamist gunman.
According to security officials, Mohamed Merah entered Israel after crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan in September 2010 where he was investigated by the Shin Bet.
Former Polish European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek will be awarded the first “Lord Jakobovits Prize of European Jewry" by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), during a ceremony to be held at Brussels’s main synagogue.
The chaos caused by a self-styled Al-Qaeda terrorist in France highlights the need for a US-type system to track suspicious travel patterns, the EU counterterrorism coordinator said Thursday.
Questions were mounting Friday over how a known Islamic extremist managed to murder seven people, including three children, in three separate attacks before being killed in a firefight.
