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This undated and unlocated frame grab provided Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by French TV station France 2 shows Mohammad Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. (AP Photo/France 2)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy pays respect during a ceremony Wednesday for three slain paratroopers. Authorities think they were killed by the gunman also thought to be responsible for the deaths of three Jewish children and a rabbi. A 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent is the chief suspect in the seven slayings.
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A French SWAT-style police officer arrives Wednesday near the building where the suspect in a series of killings was holed up in Toulouse, France. After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed for his surrender. (Associated Press)
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, with Frederic Pechenard, director of the French police, left, arrives to meet soldiers and police officers close to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in Toulouse, Southern France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Police officers and firefighters stand near a building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012, where a suspect in the shooting at he Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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Pupils of the Georges Brassens College in Paris and their head teacher, Marianne Dodinet (center), hold a minute of silence on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the day after a gunman on a motorbike opened fire at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and killed a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Police officers gather at the site of a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday, March 19, 2012. A father, his two sons and another child died when a gunman opened fire in front of the school. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)
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Police officers and firefighters gather near a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday, March 19, 2012, after a gunman killed a man, his two sons and one other child outside the school. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy waves after a re-election campaign speech in Villepinte, France, north of Paris, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, campaigning for re-election in the Basque city of Bayonne, took refuge last week when his visit was disrupted by a boisterous crowd. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at a police station in Lille, France, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
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A beignet is a form of doughnut or fried dough that originated in France and is traditionally served in New Orleans. (Associated Press)
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A traveler walks Feb. 7, 2012, next to an information board at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France. (Associated Press)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy give a joint press conference after a French-German Cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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FILE - In this July 23, 2005 file photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong, of Austin, Texas, crosses the finish line to win the 20th stage of the Tour de France cycling race, a 55.5-kilometer (34.5-mile) individual time trial looping around north of Saint-Etienne, central France. Federal prosecutors said, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, they are closing a criminal investigation of Armstrong and will not charge him over allegations the seven-time Tour de France winner used performance-enhancing drugs. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, France's Defense and Veterans Minister Gerard Longuet, left, and French General and Paris military governor Bruno Dary, right, pay tribute to the Unknown soldier's tomb, at the Arc of Triomphe, in Paris, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy following a news conference at the Elysee palace, in Paris, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)
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Serbia's Novak Djokovic celebrates following his win over France's Nicholas Mahut in their third-round match at the Australian Open, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/John Donegan)
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Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (right) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy attend a join press conference Jan. 16, 2012, after a meeting at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid. (Associated Press)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel tell reporters at a Monday news conference in Berlin that in addition to spending cuts, eurozone nations need economic expansion and more jobs. They suggested using available funding to support small and medium-sized companies and growth projects. (Associated Press)
