AFP
A paratrooper of Moroccan origin who was killed by an unidentified gunman along with two other French soldiers in southwest France will be buried in Morocco, MAP news agency said Tuesday.
The remains of Imad Ben Ziaten, who was born in France in 1981, will be flown to Morocco on Wednesday from Toulouse via Paris and Tangiers, the Moroccan consul general in Toulouse said.
He will then be taken to M’diq in northern Morocco where he will be buried, according to the wishes of his family.
The paratrooper was shot dead close to his motorbike on March 11 in a residential area of Toulouse. The gunman fled on his own scooter.
On Thursday, two other paratroopers, also of north African origin, Mohamed Legouad and Abel Chenouf, were gunned down by the same man not far from their army barracks at Montauban, as they withdrew money from a bank machine. Another soldier was seriously wounded in the attack.
Moroccan King Mohammed VI meanwhile “firmly condemned” a separate attack by the same gunman on a Jewish school in Toulouse in which he killed four people, three of them children, at point-blank range.
The “appalling” killings were “contrary to religious teachings, noble principles and universal human and moral values”, he said.
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