Source: Tribune online
REUTERS: The father of al Qaeda-inspired gunman Mohamed
Merah, who was shot dead by French police in March after going on a
killing spree, has filed a murder suit in Paris, his lawyers said
on Monday.
“This is a suit against unnamed persons for murder with
aggravating circumstances concerning those who gave the orders at
the top of the police” during the assault on Merah’s flat in
Toulouse, said lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre.
Mohamed Benalel Merah said in March that he wanted to sue the
RAID elite police unit that shot dead his son on March 22 during a
shootout at the end of a 32-hour siege at his flat in the southern
French city.
The 23-year-old had shot dead three soldiers, and three children
and a teacher at a Jewish school, in a wave of killings that
shocked the country.
He filmed himself carrying out the attacks and reportedly
confessed to police before he was shot dead.
“You’ve got 300 to 400 heavily armed people and a guy shut up
all alone in his apartment. That alone is enough to raise
questions,” said Coutant-Peyre, who is part of Merah’s legal team
headed by Algerian lawyer Zahia Mokhtari.
She said the family had video evidence that would be handed over
to the authorities when they requested it.
Mokhtari said in April that she had proof that Merah was
“liquidated”, including two 20-minute videos probably filmed by
Merah himself before he was shot dead.
You all know the details. The horrific mass murder of over seven
innocent ppl, even three CHILDREN and a teacher outside a
jewish SCHOOL. So, a selfcon-fessed mass-murderer who carried
out seven hate killings, FILMED himself egoistically doing it, then
and i quote the intl' herald tribune, "tried to shoot his way out
of the siege in Toulouse after police from the elite RAID force
entered his flat"
He died after the french RAID team plastered his body with
bullets. like a pincushion.
So, with that fact in mind, now his daddy files a lawsuit
against the RAID team(an equivalent of the SWAT team) for 'murder'
of his son in an 'unwarranted', 'excessive' use of violence.
Was it really 'excessive'?
mind you, the victims' families haven't even bothered to file a
lawsuit of their own against the so-called victim's brother and
father for their own hand in the killings, no?
my view? one word: self-defence. why the court didn't throw out
the case is an injustice in itself to the victims and the RAID
team.
Still, an interesting topic. your views on this?