French School Shooting Suspect

Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed on Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the man was planning to kill another soldier imminently.

France's President proposed a sweeping new law that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree.

Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early on Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an Al Qaida linked terror spree that killed seven people.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed on Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the man was planning to kill another soldier imminently.

Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed on Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the man was planning to kill another soldier imminently.

France's President proposed a sweeping new law that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree.

Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early on Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an Al Qaida linked terror spree that killed seven people.

After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed on Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the man was planning to kill another soldier imminently.