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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Toulouse and Montauban shootings were a series of three gun attacks targeting French soldiers and Jewish civilians in the cities of Montauban and Toulouse in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France in March 2012. In total, seven people were killed, and five others were injured, four seriously. The perpetrator was shot and killed after a 30-hour siege with police.The first attack occurred on 11 March, when a Muslim French paratrooper was shot dead in Toulouse. A second attack on 15 March killed two uniformed soldiers, also Muslim French, and seriously injured another in a shopping centre in Montauban. On 19 March, four people, including three children, were killed at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school. Thereafter, the Vigipirate, France's terror alert system, was raised to its highest level in the Midi-Pyrénées region and surrounding departements. The United Nations, many governments around the world, and the French Council of the Muslim Faith condemned the attacks.The perpetrator was identified as Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old French petty criminal, of Algerian descent. Merah attacked French Army personnel reportedly because of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Merah admitted antisemitic motivations, and said he attacked the Jewish school because \"The Jews kill our brothers and sisters in Palestine.\"Merah was raised in an \"atmosphere of racism and hatred\", and French investigators believe that Merah turned to Salafism in prison and his radicalization increased after two journeys he made to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some sources have also cited Merah's familial connections to Al Qaeda and his history of psychological issues as factors in the shootings. Merah said he was a mujaheed and claimed ties to the terrorist group al-Qaeda, though this has been denied by French authorities. President Sarkozy described the attack as isolated. The police investigation suggested that he was not working alone and had made more than 1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries, in addition to several trips to the Middle East and Afghanistan."@en }

• Toulouse_and_Montauban_shootings abstract "The Toulouse and Montauban shootings were a series of three gun attacks targeting French soldiers and Jewish civilians in the cities of Montauban and Toulouse in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France in March 2012. In total, seven people were killed, and five others were injured, four seriously. The perpetrator was shot and killed after a 30-hour siege with police.The first attack occurred on 11 March, when a Muslim French paratrooper was shot dead in Toulouse. A second attack on 15 March killed two uniformed soldiers, also Muslim French, and seriously injured another in a shopping centre in Montauban. On 19 March, four people, including three children, were killed at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school. Thereafter, the Vigipirate, France's terror alert system, was raised to its highest level in the Midi-Pyrénées region and surrounding departements. The United Nations, many governments around the world, and the French Council of the Muslim Faith condemned the attacks.The perpetrator was identified as Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old French petty criminal, of Algerian descent. Merah attacked French Army personnel reportedly because of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Merah admitted antisemitic motivations, and said he attacked the Jewish school because \"The Jews kill our brothers and sisters in Palestine.\"Merah was raised in an \"atmosphere of racism and hatred\", and French investigators believe that Merah turned to Salafism in prison and his radicalization increased after two journeys he made to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some sources have also cited Merah's familial connections to Al Qaeda and his history of psychological issues as factors in the shootings. Merah said he was a mujaheed and claimed ties to the terrorist group al-Qaeda, though this has been denied by French authorities. President Sarkozy described the attack as isolated. The police investigation suggested that he was not working alone and had made more than 1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries, in addition to several trips to the Middle East and Afghanistan.".