Brother of French jihadist killer Mohamed Merah jailed
Jonathan Sandler and his sons Arieh (far L) and Gabriel (C) were murdered by Merah at a Jewish school in Toulouse
The brother of the French jihadist who murdered seven people in Toulouse, including three Jewish children, has been jailed for 20 years.
A court in Paris found Abdelkader Merah guilty of terrorist offences.
But he was cleared of having a direct role in the 2012 attacks, in which his younger sibling, Mohamed Merah, shot three soldiers and then three children and a teacher at a Jewish school.
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Mohamed Merah shot and killed Imad Ibn-Ziaten, a 30-year-old staff sergeant in the 1st Airborne Transportation Regiment, behind the Chateau de l'Hers school in a quiet district of Toulouse on 11 March 2012.
Four days later, he killed two members of the 17th Airborne Combat Engineering Regiment, Corporal Abel Chennouf, 24, and Private Mohamed Legouad, 26, outside a small shopping centre in Montauban, 45km (30 miles) from Toulouse.
On 19 March, Merah attacked the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse. He murdered Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion, and his two sons Arieh and Gabriel, aged five and four.
The fourth victim was the head teacher's daughter, seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego, whom Merah grabbed by the hair and shot in the head.
Merah had filmed his murders with a head-mounted camera, which investigators later seized with the recording.