PARIS — The Al Jazeera broadcaster said on Tuesday that it would not broadcast gruesome footage received by its Paris bureau that appears to show the killings of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French soldiers in southwestern France earlier this month.

President Nicolas Sarkozy had objected strongly to the idea of airing the images.

In a statement on its English-language Web site, Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, said it “will not air video of French shootings” because the video “did not add any information that was not already in public domain. It also did not meet the television station’s code of ethics for broadcast.”

Zied Tarrouche, the network’s Paris bureau chief, said earlier on Tuesday that the footage showed the seven killings carried out by Mohammed Merah, who was killed Thursday in a shootout with the police in the southwestern French city of Toulouse.

As the police had earlier reported, Mr. Tarrouche said Mr. Merah apparently had a camera around his neck as he carried out the attacks. Mr. Tarrouche said Al Jazeera had given the video to the police.