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Father and two sons among victims; shooting in same area where two similar attacks by gunman on motorbike killed three paratroopers

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School children and their parents leave a Jewish school after a gunman opened fire in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012. AManu Blondeau/The Associated Press

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Police officers and firefighters gather at the site of a shooting near a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, on March 19, 2012.Bruno Martin/AP

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A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday when a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a city in southwest France, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday. (AP Photo/Manu Blondeau)Manu Blondeau/The Associated Press/The Associated Press

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Police officers gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012.Bruno Martin/The Associated Press

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Relatives leave the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012 after a man on a scooter opened fire outside the school killing two children and one adult, a police source said.JEAN-PHILIPPE ARLES/Reuters

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Relatives and school children leave the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012 after a man on a scooter opened fire outside the school killing two children and one adult, a police source said.JEAN-PHILIPPE ARLES/Reuters

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Nicolas Sarkozy (R), France's President and UMP party candidate for 2012 French presidential election, and France's Education Minister Luc Chatel (L) leave the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, March 19, 2012.POOL

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French interior minister, Claude Gueant, second from right, followed by France's chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, second from left, arrive at a Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, March 19, 2012Manu Blondeau

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A French Police officer stands guard at the entrance of a Jewish school in Paris Monday, March 19, 2012 after a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, southwestern France. A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday in the incident, the Toulouse prosecutor said Monday.Francois Mori

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A school student is escorted as he leaves the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern FranceJEAN-PHILIPPE ARLES

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French schoolchildren leave a Jewish school in Paris watched by police officers, Monday, March 19, 2012 after the French Interior Minister ordered security to be tightened around all French Jewish schools after an attack on one in Toulouse, in southwest France. A father and his two sons were among four people who died Monday when a gunman opened fire there.Jacques Brinon/AP

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrive at the Notre-Dame de Nazareth synagogue in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims killed by a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse, on March 19, 2012.Benoit Tessier/Reuters

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Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, centre, and Deputy Mayor Anne Hidalgo, second right, participate in a mass silent march in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims killed by a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse, on March 19, 2012.Charles Platiau/Reuters

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