FRENCH JEWISH SCHOOL- THREE DEAD SHOOTING

FRENCH JEWISH SCHOOL- THREE DEAD SHOOTING

A teacher and his two children were shot dead outside a Jewish school in southwestern France today, witnesses said, in the third gun attack in a week by a man who fled on a motorbike. Interior Minister Claude Gueant ordered security to be tightened around all Jewish schools in France after the attack at Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse.Israel's foreign ministry declared itself 'horrified' by the attack. 'We are horrified by this attack and we trust the French authorities to shed full light on this tragedy and bring the perpetrators of these murders to justice,' Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP. Patrick Rouimi, the father of a child at the school, told AFP that a man opened fire on a group of people standing at a
spot where children were picked up for school.

The daughter of the school's director was seriously injured in the attack, said Charles Ben Semoun, a parent of another child in the school. Police in southwestern France launched a major manhunt last week after the killing of three paratroopers and the
ounding of another in two separate, but connected incidents. The perpetrator of both attacks fled on a motorbike. Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said there was as yet no evidence to suggest the soldiers had been killed because of their service in Afghanistan. Between 50 and 60 police officers, including anti-terrorist specialists, have been drafted in to the investigation.
Senior military officials have ordered troops based in the region not to wear their uniforms outside barracks. 

                                                            Prof. John Kurakar