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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By mid-afternoon, Boumeza had released one female hostage who was feeling ill
in exchange for food and water. He let a second woman go free a couple of
hours later.
Just as the situation appeared to be turning into a stalemate, Boumeza came
out of the bank with a hostage and waving his gun.
He was shot and wounded in the left hand and right thigh. Despite his
injuries, he managed to get back into the bank and tried to set the building
on fire.
Three detonations were heard as police stormed the bank, capturing Boumeza and
freeing the remaining two hostages unharmed.
The gunman was taken to hospital. Michel Valet, a local prosecutor, said his
injuries were “significant” but his life was not in danger. The locations of
the wounds “show that the police were looking to neutralise, to protect the
hostages, and not for one second to kill” the suspect, he said.
Mr Valet said the gunman had claimed to act based on his religious beliefs but
had seemed confused. “These were poorly defined and poorly expressed
religious claims,” he said.
Boumeza’s sister, who was at the scene, said: “My brother is a practising
Muslim but he’s not a fundamentalist.”
She added that he was “put in a foster home when he was little and suffers
from rage and fears the outside world”.
Boumeza’s brother-in-law said: “He didn’t have the childhood he had wanted. He
wanted to pull a stunt. It was a cry for help.”
The siege had grim echoes of the attack three months ago when Merah killed
three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers.
The city is
still recovering from what was France’s worst terrorist attacks in years,
which led to a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals around the country.
In recent weeks, there have been fears of copycat attacks in the city, with
a series of short-lived hostage dramas, including an incident last week at a
local weather forecasting office.
“We’re going through the same thing as three months ago,” said Maria Gonzalez,
a mother of two who was unable to get to her home because of the police
cordon around the bank. “We used to be worry-free in the neighbourhood, but
since the Mohamed Merah problem, we’re worried.
“It’s happening again, it’s starting to scare me.”
Doriane Clermont, 23, who lives across the street from the bank with her
three-year-old son, said she was thinking of moving and was “worried about
the climate that reigns in this city”.
Yesterday’s hostage taking came amid heightened concerns in France
about home-grown radicals. Pakistan said on Wednesday that authorities had
arrested a Frenchman reportedly linked to one of the masterminds of the
September 11 terrorist attack.
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