Probe launched into broadcast of Merah tapes

09/07/12 06:59 CET

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An investigation has been launched into how taped exchanges between French police and a jihadist gunman came to be broadcast on national television. Mohamed Merah died in a shootout after police laid siege to his flat in Toulouse. He had previously shot dead seven people including three children.

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