'There's a monster on the loose': Sarkozy's warning as it's revealed Toulouse serial killer could have filmed horrific murders using camera recommended by Breivik



Seven now dead as police hunt assassin with right-wing connections

Killer 'had video camera around his neck' as he pulled up and opened fire

Could have taken 'inspiration from Anders Behring Breivik'



Father and his two sons, and another girl, killed outside Jewish school

Three French paratroopers murdered last week, another still critical



The serial killer who gunned down three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France filmed the carnage in a move possibly inspired by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik.

As police last night warned he could strike again, chilling details of the rampage emerged.

All the victims – Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, his two young sons, three-year-old Gavriel and six-year-old Aryeh, and headmaster’s daughter Miriam Monsonego, eight – were shot in the head at such close range that the gunfire burned the surrounding skin.

Last week the same attacker is believed to have shot three soldiers, all of North African or Caribbean origin, in the same area in two separate attacks.

Sad: The bodies of the four victims of the shootings lie in shrouds at the Jewish School targeted by an assassin

Grieving: Men and women pictured mourning during a ceremony at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school today



Released: These three soldiers posing with a Nazi flag were quizzed over a series of shootings in the Toulouse area of France, before being released

He carried the same weapons and rode a black scooter to and from the attack at 8am on Monday.

There has been a four-day gap between each of his three attacks – leading to suspicions there will be a fourth on Friday, which is not only the start of the Jewish Sabbath but is also a Muslim day of prayer.

Hundreds of anti-terror police officers yesterday flooded Toulouse, with south-west France in virtual lockdown. ‘We are up against an extremely determined individual, who knows he’s being hunted, who could strike again,’ Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.

Surveillance tapes at the school showed that the gunman – believed to be a trained marksman with far-Right views – recorded his shooting spree with a small video camera around his neck.

‘This shows a profile of the murderer as someone who is very cold, very determined, with precise gestures, and therefore very cruel,’ said Claude Gueant, the French interior minister.

Breivik, who last July went on a shooting spree in Norway that killed 77 people, mostly children, advised anyone wanting to carry out a copycat ‘operation’ to film it using such a camera.





Tragic: Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, the Jewish studies teacher shot dead along with his sons (left) and Miriam Monsonego, (right) the eight-year-old daughter of the school's headteacher, who also died

So young: Aryeh Sandler (left) who was killed alongside his father and brother Gavriel (right)



Across France, a minute’s silence was held.

President Sarkozy said racism appeared to be the motivation for Monday’s school attack, adding: ‘When you grab a little girl to put a bullet in her head, without leaving her any chance, you are a monster.

‘An anti-Semitic monster, but first of all a monster.’

The bodies of the three children and Mr Sandler were driven to Paris on Monday afternoon to be flown to Israel for burial.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned there was a 'monster on the loose' as thousands of police officers continued to hunt the Toulouse serial killer.



Inspiration? The gunman used a camera as recommended by Anders Behring Breivik

In stressing the overall horror of the crime, he told junior high school students in Paris that victims of the Jewish school bloodbath were 'exactly like you'.



A rabbi and his two sons, and the eight-year-old daughter of the headmaster, were gunned down by a motorbike rider outside the Ozar Hatorah School.

It came the week after three soldiers were also murdered in the same area.



The warning came as it was revealed the gunman could have filmed the brutal murders - and that he may also have taken inspiration from Norwegian mass murdered Anders Behring Breivik.

Sarkozy said: 'That could have happened here. There are beings who have no respect for life.



'When you grab a little girl to put a bullet in her head, without leaving her any chance, you are a monster. An anti-Semitic monster, but first of all a monster.'



His comments were made before a nationwide moment of silence to honour the victims at a public school across the street from a memorial to French who helped Jews during the Holocaust.

The speech also came as the shrouded bodies of the four victims were placed on display.



Dozens of mourners gathered at the Toulouse school to pay tribute to the three children and one adult killed in yesterday's bloodshed.



Police cordoned off the school, where well-wishers had begun to lay wreaths of flowers outside the bullet-marked walls as a line of police stood guard.

SPORTS CAMERA TOULOUSE SERIAL KILLER MAY HAVE USED

It was revealed today that the gunman may post images of the atrocity online after filming the attack with an extreme sports camera as he chased his victims.

Interior minister Claude Gueant said a witness had seen a GoPro 'versatile wearable' camera around the neck of the man during the school shootings.

The GoPro camera is recommended for filming sports while moving and is billed by its manufactures as 'the worlds most versatile camera.'

Lightweight and small, it can be secured and mounted on helmets or chest harnesses.

It is usually used to film skiing, mountain biking, scuba diving or skydiving. The film is shot on a memory card with a wide-angle lens and is waterproof.

It has an impressive depth of field, allowing for objects near and far to remain in focus during high-action movement.



Hearses arrived carrying the bodies of the victims for an overnight vigil attended by parents and relatives. The corpses were then flown to Israel.

It was also revealed today that the gunman may post images of the atrocity online after filming the attack with an extreme sports camera as he chased his victims.

And he could have taken inspiration from Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik - who last July went on a shooting spree that killed 77 people.



He had advised anyone wanting to carry out copycat killings to film their attack using such a camera.

'This extremely small and lightweight field camera is used to document your operation,' Behring Breivik wrote in an online manifesto published shortly before he went on the murderous spree.



Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two young sons, Gavriel, three, and Aryeh, six, were gunned down outside the school in the north-east of the city of Toulouse shortly after 8am.

The fourth victim was Miriam Monsonego, eight, daughter of the school’s headteacher Rabbi Yaacov Monsonego.



At least four others were seriously wounded, including pupils who were chased inside the school buildings.



The .45 Colt pistol used in the school shooting was the same one used to kill the three soldiers by a lone gunman who also escaped on a motor bike.

Interior minister Claude Gueant said a witness had seen a GoPro 'versatile wearable' camera around the neck of the man during the school shootings.



He said: 'The camera is a clue which has been effectively pointed out. It's an image recorder which you place on the chest, which is adjusted by straps.



'I don’t know if he films everything but that machine has been seen. It is a national duty that we should arrest this individual.'

Nicole Yardeni, a local Jewish official who saw security video of the attack taken from the single camera near the school gate said: ‘He shot at everything he had in front of him, children and adults.



'The children were chased inside the school.’ She described the gunman as ‘determined, athletic and well-toned’.

Victims: Rabbi Jonathan Sandler (second left) was shot dead with his two of his sons - Aryeh (circled left), and his brother Gavriel (circled right)

In memory: Pupils at the Anne-Franck college in Lambersart, northern France, remember the children killed in yesterday's shootings

Tribute: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni pictured leaving the Nazareth synagogue today after a psalm lecture following the tragic shooting

And she added: ‘You see a man park his motorcycle, start to shoot, enter the school grounds and chase children to catch one and shoot a bullet into her head. It’s unbearable to watch.’



Police also believe the killer could be behind four other ride-by murders in the same part of southern France last week.



Two paratroopers aged 24 and 26 died at the scene, while a third, 28, remains in a coma after being repeatedly shot in the head. All were of North African background.



Four days earlier another off-duty black soldier, 30, and originally from Martinique, was shot dead in similar circumstances as he stood by his motorbike in Toulouse.

Today's developments came as three 'Neo-Nazi' parachute regiment veterans questioned over the Toulouse serial killings were today cleared of any involvement.

The unnamed men, all from the same unit as three soldiers murdered last week, were discharged from the French army after being pictured giving Nazi salutes and draped in a Swastika flag.



Solidarity: Members of France's Jewish community demonstrated and lit candles on Place de la Bastille during a silent tribute march to the victims of the Toulouse school shooting

Anger: The Jewish community in France has come together after the shocking events at the Toulouse school



Tribute: A man places teddy bears and drawings at a makeshift shrine outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse yesterday

There were fears that they might have carried out the murders as part of a 'revenge attack' for being kicked out.





But all of the men, who were in the elite 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment, have now been heard by police and provided alibis.

'The ex-soldiers are free to go,' said a source close to the investigation. 'Other lines of enquiry are being pursued.' Despite the release of the ex-soldiers, police still believe the scooter-riding killer may have been a right-wing extremist.



In each case the gunman approached his targets on a motor scooter – his face obscured by a crash helmet – brandishing two guns.

France’s elite terror squad – the DPSD – is leading the massive police manhunt for the killer.

As the authorities announced extra security at schools and religious buildings, French President Nicolas Sarkozy added: ‘We should not back down in the face of terror. Barbarism, savagery, hate must not win.’

Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Mr Sarkozy to express his dismay at the ‘senseless’ shootings. ‘People across Britain share the shock and grief that is being felt in France, and my thoughts are with the victims, their friends and their families,’ he wrote.

Grief: Flowers and messages were left outside the school where a father and two sons, and another girl, were gunned down

Devastating news: Jean-Paul Amoyelle, president of the Ozar Hatorah school, pictured packing his bags in his New York hotel room yesterday so he could return to France

‘I know that France will draw strength and comfort from your resolute leadership at this difficult time. You can count on my every support in confronting these senseless acts of brutality and cowardice.’

Fears that an extremist serial killer is on the loose come at a time when immigration is playing an increasingly large role in the presidential election, which takes place later this spring.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, trailing in the polls, was earlier this month accused of trying of pander to the far-right and grab votes from the extremist National Front.

He declared that there were ‘too many foreigners in France’ and threatened to quit the EU’s Schengen open borders agreement unless Europe could seal its external borders to illegal immigration. France’s elite terror squad – the DPSD – is leading the massive police manhunt for the killer. As the authorities announced extra security at schools and religious buildings, Mr Sarkozy suspended campaigning to visit the scene of the attack.

He said: ‘We should not back down in the face of terror. Barbarism, savagery, hate must not win.’ He added: ‘We will find him’.

The killer's bike has been described as a black or white Yamaha T-Max similar to the one pictured

Earlier victim: Corporal Abel Chennouf (left) with his pregnant girlfriend. He was one of two soldiers killed in a drive-by shooing in Montauban last week

Victim: Paratrooper Imad Ibn Ziaten (left and right) who was killed last week in the Toulouse area



VIDEO: Additional security introduced at schools and religious buildings

VIDEO: A minute's silence is held across France to mourn the victims of the shooting