![]() Far-right chief Marine Le Pen, trailing frontrunner Hollande and Sarkozy, also made a similar pledge.ĭominique Reynie, head of the Fondapol politics institute, said the killings could transform the election campaign, five weeks before polling day. Sarkozy, who is seeking re-election in a two-round election in April and May, said he would suspend his campaign until Wednesday. “Nobody should try to benefit in any way from this drama, which is in no way linked to the electoral campaign,” Juppe said. He said Jewish organizations had complained about an increase in anti-Semitic incidents recently, but rejected suggestions racial tensions stirred during the campaign could have triggered the attacks. “Anti-Semitism exists in France, we have fought it for years,” Juppe said. In August, 1982, six people were killed in a combined grenade and gun attack at the Goldenberg restaurant in Paris’ Marais Jewish district. Monday’s shooting was the most deadly anti-Semitic attack on French soil in nearly 30 years. The school attack, and the killing of three soldiers last week, has stunned France and prompted President Nicolas Sarkozy and other leading candidates to suspend campaigning for next month’s presidential election. “This shows a profile of the murderer as someone who is very cold, very determined, with precise gestures, and therefore very cruel,” Gueant added. It is someone who is cruel enough to record it,” Gueant said at a primary school in the southwestern city. ![]() “This adds another element to the profile of the killer. REUTERS/Eric Cabanis/PoolĬlaude Gueant told reporters video surveillance tapes at the school in Toulouse showed the gunman was recording his shooting spree with a small video camera attached to his neck. Five people were injured in the attack, which occurred as students were arriving for morning classes at the Ozar Hatorah school, a city official said. A man on a scooter opened fire outside the school killing two children and one adult, a police source said. The principal would not comment, but the school district says any parent can challenge a trespass order and they have not received one from Austin yet.Īustin says she plans on filing on appeal so she can go to her daughter's graduation.Nicolas Sarkozy (R), France's President and UMP party candidate for 2012 French presidential election, and France's Education Minister Luc Chatel (L) leave the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012. What would have happened if my daughter came home and off and killed herself," she said. "There are kids killing themselves over bullying. "That's when the principal looked at me and said 'you're justifying what she did.' I said 'I'm not justifying what she did but you didn't handle the situation when I called you,'" Austin said.Īustin and the principal had a heated exchange and days later she received a certified letter in the mail telling her she was no longer allowed on school grounds.Īustin says she was wrong to yell but banning her from the school goes too far. So after the inevitable fight happened, she defended her daughter. "My daughter called me and said 'mom the girl just walked up and punched me in the face,'" Austin said.Īustin says she got really mad, and although the school had apparently moved her daughter and the alleged bully out of the same homeroom, they still shared two classes together. ![]() Then just last week her daughter was suspended for fighting with her alleged bully. The mom says things were getting bad for her eighth grader so she thought she was doing the right thing by alerting administrators at Carnage Middle School.Īustin claims she called the school twice and complained that her daughter was being bullied and thought the situation was being handled. "I'm very angry because I can't go to the graduation now," Austin said. ![]() Latia Austin was banned from school after defending her bullied daughter, but the school says she went too far.
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