{"id":20020,"date":"2012-06-20T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=20020"},"modified":"2012-06-20T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:22:44","slug":"a-self-proclaimed-al-qaeda-militant-took-hostages-at-french-bank-in-toulouse-20020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/a-self-proclaimed-al-qaeda-militant-took-hostages-at-french-bank-in-toulouse-20020\/","title":{"rendered":"A self-proclaimed al-Qaeda militant took hostages at French bank in Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20023\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/france-tuluz-0153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20023\" title=\"A self-proclaimed al-Qaeda militant took hostages at French bank in Toulouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/france-tuluz-0153.jpg\" alt=\"A self-proclaimed al-Qaeda militant took hostages at French bank in Toulouse\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A self-proclaimed al-Qaeda militant took hostages at French bank in Toulouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>A gunman\u00a0claiming to be an al-Qaeda militant took four hostages at a bank in the French city Toulouse. The place is close to\u00a0where serial killer Mohamed Merah lived and was shot dead by police three months ago.<\/h2>\n<p>The gunman came to the bank in central Toulouse around 11 am and took 4 hostages &#8211;\u00a0the bank director and three other people.\u00a0The officials said a single shot has been fired but no detriments have been reported till now.\u00a0A police official in Toulouse has told that one of the hostages &#8211; a woman, has been exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Valet &#8211;\u00a0Toulouse prosecutor said : &#8216;\u00a0We are taking measures so we can start a dialogue with the hostage taker &#8216;. He said at the scene\u00a0where police have set up a 200-metre cordon around the French bank.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of pupils at a neighboring school were sent text messages telling them to pick up their children and rapid-intervention police units were dispatched from southern French cities Bordeaux and Marseille.<\/p>\n<h3>Tragedy in Toulouse, al-Qaeda militant takes four hostages at French bank<\/h3>\n<p>In the southern Toulouse, about 500 thousand people have lived in fear while police hunted the killer before he was known as Mohamed Merah. His neighbourhood self-proclaimed al-Qaeda militant\u00a0has struggled to shake off the imprint of being connected with him. The gunman identity is still unclear.<\/p>\n<p>French authorities portrayed Mohamed Merah as a radical who had trained in two arabic countries : Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0The officials said at the time that they found no operational ties between Merah and Al-Qaeda group though his maintain.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 18)<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman claiming to be an al-Qaeda militant took four hostages at a bank in the French city Toulouse. The place is close to where serial killer Mohamed Merah lived and was shot dead by police three months ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,14],"tags":[25522,25525,25527,25526,22037,25529,25523,21926,25524],"class_list":["post-20020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-world","tag-al-qaeda-militant","tag-hostages-at-french-bank","tag-michel-valet","tag-militant-takes-hostages-at-french-bank","tag-mohamed-merah","tag-mohamed-merah-toulouse","tag-self-proclaimed-al-qaeda-militant","tag-toulouse-france","tag-tragedy-in-toulouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}