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Toulouse Shooting: City Square Evacuated After Suspect Package

Huffington Post UK  |  By   |  Posted: 23/03/2012 18:49 Updated: 23/03/2012 22:04

Place Capitaole Toulouse

A Toulouse city square was evacuated due to a suspect package on Friday after a rally in support of the seven victims of murderer Mohammed Merah.

According to the Huffington Post in France, the square was evacuated just before 8pm local time.

Explosives experts detonated a parcel shortly afterwards, HuffPost France reported. The square was reopened shortly afterwards.

Thousands of people had gathered in the Place du Capitole on Friday to pay homage to the victims of the killer.

Police said that up to 4,000 people had gathered including people from the city's Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities.

The people in the square had rallied around the slogan "living together: equality, plurality, dignity".

The news comes after a tumultuous week Toulouse, in which the biggest manhunt in French history was launched to find the killer of seven people including three children and three soldiers.

That hunt ended in an extended stand-off with 23-year-old Mohammed Merah, who was shot in the head by police on Thursday.


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straightuptalker
What ever happened to common sense?
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09:38 AM on 03/24/2012
Curious to know if Toulouse Square is named after the artist, Henri Toulouse Latrec, the famous French painter. This is the 2nd time this week that name has been in the news, so I'm guessing this little, insignificant town has now become a place of interest.
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Monkeyaction
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01:01 PM on 03/24/2012
Little insignificant???? What planet do you live on?
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Monkeyaction
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01:03 PM on 03/24/2012
Little??? ...Insignificant??? What planet are you on?? Planet USA no doubt??
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Saint wright
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06:50 AM on 03/24/2012
The World in Terror.

In the last 4 weeks acts of terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, India, China, Pakistan and now France, have left hundreds dead and thousands terribly injured for life, including many women and children, deliberately targeted to increase the horror of the act.

All the above crimes against humanity have one thing in common; they were committed by criminals who claim to do it in the name of Allah. While it is true to say most Muslims are not terrorist, it is also true most of the world’s terrorists are.

Politicians and Islamic spokesmen repeatedly tell us after each new atrocity that Islam is a religion of peace, how does that equate with the unpalatable fact that the perpetrators of terror across the world are Muslims engaged in Jihad or holy war?
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DavidBlackwell
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08:23 AM on 03/24/2012
Spot on wrighty
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Hank Hancocks
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08:36 PM on 03/23/2012
I can confirm it was not put there by Mohammed Merah! He is died? well done to the French Police!
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