Reports are suggesting that Merah, the alleged killer of Toulouse, was an informant for French intelligence[1]. This is a possibility I considered because it is something that happened to the alleged killer of JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald.
If Merah was indeed an informant for the DGSE then it would explain
1. his lifestyle (although unemployed he lived in his own flat, had cars and apparently built a cache of weapons)
2. his ability to avoid arrest after kidnapping youths and forcing them to watch al Qaeda DVDs of beheadings and executions, and walking around with sword shouting "Al Qaeda! Al Qaeda!"
3. the blatant plan to kill him in his flat so that he could not tell his side of the story
It is possible that he had infiltrated a cell that did the killings while he was merely a member helping out rather then doing the killings. It is also possible that he did none of the shootings. Witnesses said the killer at Montauban was fat/stocky with a facial tattoo. Merah was lean and did not have a tattoo, though it is possible that he wore extra clothes and a tattoo could have been painted on and then washed off afterwards.
A look at all of Merah's bank accounts would be useful, to the say the least.
[1] Massacre nut ‘spied on terrorists for France’, The Sun, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4223564/GUNMAN-whose-7-victims-included-3-children-was-spy-for-the-country-it-is-claimed.html, 28/03/2012]
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