On 19 March 2012 , four people were killed by a shooter at an Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse , including a teaching rabbi and three children , two of them his sons . A teenager was also wounded in the attack . Police later identified Mohammed Merah , a French native of Algerian descent , as the shooter responsible for these and the associated deaths of three French Muslim army personnel in two other incidents on March 11 and March 15 , and three police killed during the March 22 siege of his apartment . He also wounded a total of five people , four seriously . Police shot and killed Merah during the siege
four people were killed
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Ozar Hatorah