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Toulouse shooting: Police arrest 2 suspected accomplices

Police in France have arrested two people accused of helping Mohamed Merah to carry out his deadly attacks in Toulouse earlier this year.

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Special forces officers arrived at the suspect's home in the early hours of Wednesday morning, where they have been attempting to persuade him to surrender ever since.
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Security is super-tight in Toulouse as the hunt for the killer of Jewish school children and immigrant soldiers intensifies. (PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/Getty Images)

France has been convulsed by the shooting yesterday of a Rabbi and three children at Jewish school. Schools across the country today observed a moment's silence.

Extra police and security personnel have poured into the area around Toulouse in southwest France as an intense manhunt gets underway.

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Police forensic teams working outside the Jewish school in Toulouse where three children and a rabbi were murdered today. (ERIC CABANIS/AFP/Getty Images)

We know the where, when and how but what yokes together the drive-by assassinations of paratroopers from immigrant backgrounds and a rabbi and three Jewish school children?

This post is likely to be superseded by events but it is important to summarize what is known seven hours after today's killings (thanks to the BBC):

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