From March 11 to 19 , 2012 , Mohammed Merah , a French man of Algerian descent born in Toulouse , committed the Toulouse and Montauban shootings , a series of three attacks against French soldiers and civilians in Toulouse and Montauban , in the Midi-Pyrénees region . The last day he attacked a Jewish day school in Toulouse , killing a teacher and three children , and wounding a teenager . He killed a total of three French Muslim soldiers in Toulouse and Montauban , and seriously wounded a fourth . During the 30-hour police siege at his apartment on March 22 , Merah wounded three police men before he was killed by a police sniper
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Antisemitism in 21st-century France