{"id":171170,"date":"2012-03-27T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T07:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=171170"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T07:26:06","slug":"toulouse-shooting-video-sent-to-al-jazeera-recorded-by-mohamed-merah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/27\/toulouse-shooting-video-sent-to-al-jazeera-recorded-by-mohamed-merah.html","title":{"rendered":"Toulouse Shooting: Video Sent To Al Jazeera Recorded By Mohamed Merah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage filmed by the French gunman Mohamed Merah during his bloody shooting spree has been sent to the Al Jazeera television network in Paris, a police source said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera received a computer memory drive containing a montage of footage accompanied by Islamist war songs, and sent the package on to police on Monday, the source close to the investigation told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>An Al Jazeera employee contacted by Reuters confirmed the report.<\/p>\n<p>The package was dated Wednesday, March 21, the day that police surrounded Merah in his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse after a massive manhunt, according to a report in the Parisien daily newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>French special forces shot the young Islamist the following day after a 30-hour siege.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators are trying to find out whether the letter was posted Tuesday night by Mohamed Merah himself or by an accomplice Wednesday morning,&#8221; the newspaper wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Merah, who said he was inspired by al Qaeda, admitted to killing three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi in a spate of shootings that sent shockwaves through France.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris prosecutor in charge of the case said last week that the Merah had filmed each of the shootings, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/26\/toulouse-shooting-video-al-jazeera-mohamed-merah_n_1380755.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reuters reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage filmed by the French gunman Mohamed Merah during his bloody shooting spree has been sent to the Al Jazeera television network in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20961,39817,39646,39513,39816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}