President Nicolas Sarkozy: Religious Minorities

Southwestern France Dept: Authorities said the same weapon, a powerful .45-calibre handgun, was used in two other recent shootings in southwestern France, also involving an assailant who fled by motorbike. Those attacks left three people dead military paratroopers of North African and Caribbean origin. Your news, according to CBC. The shootings echoed across a nation that has been focused on an upcoming presidential race in which issues about religious minorities and race have gained prominence. President Nicolas Sarkozy facing a hard re-election battle raised the terrorism alert level in the region to its highest level, while also noting a possible racist motive and a gunman on a motorbike opened fire Monday at a Jewish school, killing a rabbi and his two young sons as they waited for a bus, then chased down a 7-year-old girl, shooting her dead at point-blank range. It was the latest in a series of attacks on minorities that have raised fears of a racist killer on the loose. Are you in Toulouse? Send us your photos, video . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.