1400 GMT: The self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda militant who admitted gunning down seven people filmed all three attacks in southwestern France, a prosecutor says..
MerahFrancois Molins, France's top anti-terror magistrate who is overseeing the probe into the killing of three soldiers, three Jewish children and a teacher, said Mohamed filmed each attack in its entirety.
1349 GMT: MOHAMED MERAH FILMED "EXTREMELY EXPLICIT" SCENES OF ALL HIS KILLINGS: PROSECUTOR
1347 GMT: FRENCH POLICE TOLD TO DO ALL THEY COULD TO TAKE SUSPECT ALIVE: PROSECUTOR
1346 GMT: FRENCH QAEDA SUSPECT MERAH SHOT IN HEAD: PROSECUTOR
1330 GMT: Stick around for comments from the French chief prosecutor, who is about to give a news conference
1232 GMT: "Our Muslim compatriots are unconnected with the crazy motivations of a terrorist," Sarkozy says.
1226 GMT: Sarkozy says in a televised statement that anyone who travels abroad, as Merah claimed to have done, for training in terrorism, should be punished.
Sarkozy has asked for a study of how terrorist ideas are propogated and vowed a crackdown on the spreading of such ideas in prisons.
"We can't accept our prisons being centres for brainwashing and teaching of terrorism," Sarkozy says.
1217 GMT: Mohamed Merah "was dead by the time he hit the ground" after fleeing through a window of his Toulouse flat, a police source says after authorities announced the death following a 32-hour siege of the suspect in the killings of seven people in southern France.
1212 GMT: Sarkozy is about to give a news conference on this morning's death in a gun battle with police of the man who allegedly rode around on a scooter to carry out a killing spree.
1206 GMT: FRENCH SHOOTING SUSPECT 'KILLED' BY POLICE AS HE JUMPED FROM BALCONY: POLICE SOURCE
1202 GMT: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has congratulated police involved in the operation.
"The president congratulates all of the security forces after the conclusion of these tragic events," he said. "Our thoughts at this time are particularly for those killed and wounded by the suspected killer."
1152 GMT: Merah finally jumped out of a window with a weapon in his hand, still shooting. He was then found dead on the ground below, Gueant said.
1147 GMT: Video surveillance showed noone in the flat's main rooms or in the toilet, which just left the bathroom. When "a means of investigation" was put into the bathroom, Merah came out shooting "with extreme violence", the interior minister said.
1144 GMT: Gueant says police went in after grenades thrown at the apartment brought no response from Merah.
They entered through the doorway of Merah's flat after removing the door and also entered via windows after removing shutters during the night.
1137 GMT: More from Interior Minister Gueant: "RAID officers of course tried to protect themselves, to return fire, and then in the end, Mohamed Merah jumped out of the window with a gun in his hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground."
1136 GMT: Police found Mohamed Merah in the bathroom after clearing all the other rooms of the flat where he had mounted a 31 hour standoff with police, Interior Minister Claude Gueant tells journalists..
"When a means of investigation (such as a mirror or camera) was introduced into the bathroom, the killer came out from the bathroom shooting very violently. The bursts of gunfire were frequent and hard," Gueant says.
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