Despite nearly 27 hours at about 300 police officers surrounded the building of five floors in an industrial area in the upscale city of Toulouse in southwest France rejects Mohamed Marah's 24-year-old to surrender.
He even boasted that he was able to "kneel" France said a police source said the only regret is his inability to implement his plans for the pace more deaths.
Marah told his negotiators from the police that he killed three French soldiers last week, and four people in a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday in retaliation for the killing of Palestinian children and by the participation of the French army in the war in Afghanistan. And pictures of the armed attack on Jewish school a small camera.
French troops engaged in Afghanistan as part of the force led by NATO.
He said on Wednesday, the Paris public prosecutor Francois Moulin, a member of counter-terrorism unit, which leads the investigation in a press conference "is not only to regret that he did not have more time to kill more people and boasts of being able to subjugate France."
He promised French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday its citizens passage of justice and asked them not to succumb to the tendency for revenge.
Sarkozy said that may affect his handling of the crisis on the presidential election being fought to win a new term after less than five weeks as he stood in front of three flag-draped coffins of French soldiers dead after Tazith relatives of the victims, "Our soldiers did not die in the way that have prepared themselves for it. Did not die in the battlefield but that was the execution of a terrorist. "
He continued, "We must remain united. Any way should not give in to the spirit of discrimination or retaliation. Can not be for France to be great only in its unity. We owe it to the memory of these men and indebted to the three children who were killed and all the victims."
The Jewish school and they killed a rabbi and two children and another child were buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
And blew a unit of special forces commandos in France three shipments device before midnight destroyed the main door of the building and created a gap in the wall after it became clear that the gunman did not intend to give himself up.
The police continued to fire shots and almost every hour of movements have stepped up at dawn and set off two more shipments. Analysts said the armed police were trying to fatigue so you can capture him alive.
A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior Pierre Henry Brandi told Reuters "It was a maneuver to intimidate the gunman, who apparently changed his mind and does not want to surrender."
It was the gunman who authorities said that the possession of weapons, including Uzi automatic rifle model and a Kalashnikov assault rifle had hit on Wednesday, two police officers.
Authorities said the gunman, a Frenchman of Algerian descent visited Pakistan and Afghanistan where he allegedly received training at the hands of al Qaeda.
Marah told police negotiators that he had accepted the task on behalf of al Qaeda after he received training in the border area of Pakistan lawless.
The Attorney-General in Paris that the suspect already identified another soldier and two police officers wanted to kill them. The gunman has vowed repeatedly to surrender on Wednesday to members of a unit of special forces that have surrounded the house cleared of its occupants.
Mullane said, "He explained that he is not suicidal and that he has no spirit of martyrdom, but prefers the killings and said he would remain alive."
In a ceremony near Toulouse Butkna military president praised French soldiers from the three North African descent and those who were killed last week.
The claim came to national unity after Sarkozy said his rival in the presidential elections the far right leader Marine Le Pen, France should launch a war against Islamic extremism.
Source: Reuters
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