It has now been around 17 hours since police surrounded a building in Toulouse in order to take a man, suspected of killing up to seven people, into custody.
Yet despite earlier reports, Mohammed Merah has not been arrested and remains holed up inside. Police are believed to be preparing to storm the building.
Merah, 23, is wanted for the murders of four people at close range outside a Jewish school on Monday. He is also suspected to be behind the killings of three paratroopers, whose funerals, like those of the Jewish victims, were held today.
The Frenchman, who is of Algerian descent, is a self-proclaimed jihadist with al-Qaida links, and it is believed he could be the same man who escaped from a Kandahar prison four years ago after being convicted on a bomb plot.
