‘Reuters’ reports that French police arrested two people on Tuesday in the hunt for accomplices of Mohamed Merah, the gunman who went on a killing spree in March 2012 at a Jewish school in Toulouse and a French army barracks. Citing a judicial source, the news agency says that two men arrested were aged 29 and 30 old. Merah killed three soldiers, a rabbi and three Jewish children before he was shot dead by élite police forces besieging his Toulouse home.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday he did not believe Merah had been a "lone wolf", but had received help from overseas and been radicalized in France.
One of the gunman's brothers, Abdelkader Merah, was arrested on the day police surrounded his brother's apartment in Toulouse last March. He denies being an accomplice in the killings but remains in detention during what has been deemed an anti-terrorism inquiry.
A senior French anti-terrorism judge said earlier this week the country needed more robust local policing, better intelligence sharing and the ability to infiltrate small radical Islamist groups in order to fight new security threats at home.
