French shootings

I'm sure everyone has heard about the shootings at the Jewish school in Toulouse, south-west France in which three children, aged 3, 6 and 8, and a rabbi were shot dead.

The headline in the Daily Star read 'Four killed in Nazi attack'. The paper reported that 'police are hunting three "neo-Nazi" paratroopers and alledged that the main suspects were "three soldiers who were fired for neo-Nazi activities in 2008."

The Sun's headline was "Hunt for 'Nazi' soldiers after four are killed in France school shooting".

The Daily Mail said that police were hunting an assassin with right-wing connections. The Independant said that it was a "lone nut" with extreme racist views.

Then today we find out the truth.

As I write this French police are engaged in a siege with a man they believe is responsible for the killings.

The suspect, 24, has been named as Mohammed Merah, of Algerian origin, according to French news agency AFP.

French interior minister Claude Gueant said he had declared himself to be a "mujahideen" or Islamic warrior fighting to avenge Palestinian children killed in the conflict with Israel.

"This person has made trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past... and says he belongs to al Qaeda and says he wanted to avenge Palestinian children and to attack the French army. He has links with people involved in jihadism and salafism," he said.

Once again the media try to blame Nationalists for attrocities committed by Muslims.

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Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.

The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.

Police made the discovery in December after a tip-off from an informant, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on its website.

The girl had previously been reported missing.

The informant told the police she had been killed following a family "council" meeting.

The death reopens debate over 'honour' killings in Turkey, which account for half of all the country's murders.

The earliest date that Turkey could enter the EU is 2013