◼ Al Qaeda fanatic is DEAD: Serial killer jumps out flat window with all guns blazing in dramatic end to 32-hour siege - Peter Allen/Daily Mail
The Al Qaeda fanatic who murdered seven people in south west France died in a vicious gunfire battle after police stormed his apartment following a 32-hour siege.
The Toulouse terrorist burst out of his flat's bathroom 'shooting insanely' at officers, before leaping to his death from a window.
In scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood film, Mohammad Merah, 23, unleashed round after round from automatic weapons after gas cannisters were thrown into his apartment and police stormed in....
Following Merah's death, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said an investigation has now been launched to see if he had any accomplices.
He also said anyone who regularly visits 'websites which support terrorism or call for hate or violence will be punished by the law.'
And he promised a crackdown on anyone who goes abroad 'for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology'.
