Algeria refuses French gunman's body for burial

  • 12 years ago
Algerian authorities won't allow the body of Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah to be sent there for burial, according to a French Muslim official.

Security fears prompted the refusal, according to Abdallah Zekri, an advisor to the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Zekri says that as a result of the refusal, he was asked to organise the funeral today, near Toulouse.

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