French Police Standoff With Terror Suspect Ends

A TV grab released by French TV France 2 shows an image of 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent Mohamed Merah, suspected of a series of deadly shootings in Toulouse and Montauban which killed seven persons, including three children. Merah, suspected

A police woman inspects the balcony of the apartment where special forces police staged the assault on the gunman Mohamed Merah, in Toulouse, March 23, 2012. (Reuters)

France's French Interior minister Claude Gueant (3rdL) arrives to speak to journalists in Toulouse, southwestern France. Self-professed Al-Qaeda militant Mohamed Merah died during a police assault on his besieged flat. "Mohamed Merah jumped from the windo

Masked French special unit policemen leave the scene after the assault to capture gunman Mohamed Merah during a raid on a building to arrest the suspect in Toulouse, March 22, 2012. (Reuters)

Policemen are seen at work during the assault near the Belle Paule residence where members of the RAID special police forces unit attempted to arrest Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings in Toulouse, southwestern France, March

A GIPN van (French National Police Intervention Group) arrives near the place where members of the RAID special police forces unit laid siege to the apartment block where Mohamed Merah, the man suspected of a series of deadly shootings, was holed up in To

A woman speaks with a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in Toulouse, March 22, 2012. (AP)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) looks at soldiers holding the coffin of one of the three French paratroopers who were killed by the same man in Montauban and Toulouseat the French 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment barracks in Montauban, southern Franc

A security perimeter set in front of a Jewish School, in Paris, after French Interior Minister ordered security to be tightened around all French Jewish schools after the attack in Toulouse that left three dead, March 19, 2012. (AFP)