(JNS) On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah, a French-Algerian supporter of al-Qaeda, carried out a shooting attack on the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, killing a teacher, Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two sons, Gabriel, 3, and Aryeh, 6, and an 8-year-old girl, Myriam Monsonego, and seriously wounding Aaron “Bryan” Bijaoui, 15.
Eight days earlier, Merah shot and killed a French paratrooper of Moroccan origin in the city.
Then on March 15, he murdered two French soldiers of Algerian origin in Montauban, north of Toulouse. A third soldier was seriously wounded in the head while withdrawing money from an ATM near the barracks where they were stationed.
Merah was eventually killed when police stormed his apartment in Toulouse after a 32-hour siege.
Ozar Hatorah has since been named the Ohr Torah school.
