Al Jazeera has said it will not air a video that it received showing three shooting attacks in Toulouse and Montauban in southern France this month. 
 
 The network on Tuesday said the video did not add any information that was not already in public domain. It also did not meet the television station's code of ethics for broadcast. 
 
 The video shows the attacks in chronological order, with audible gunshots and voices of the killer and the victims. But it does not show the face of the confessed murderer, Mohammed Merah, and it does not contain a statement from him. 
 
 Merah appeared to be acting alone in the video, entitled "Al Qaeda attaque la France" - meaning "Al-Qaeda attacks France". 
 
 The 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, who said he was inspired by al-Qaeda, admitted to killing three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi in a spate of shootings that sent shockwaves through France. 
 
 Merah boasted of filming his killings and witnesses told police that he appeared to be wearing a video camera in a chest harness. 
 
 The Paris prosecutor in charge of the case confirmed last week that the Merah had filmed each of the shootings. 
 
 Tracing the source 
 
 French police said on Monday they had copies of the videos, shot by Merah during the series of killings, that had been sent on a USB memory stick to Al Jazeera's office in Paris. 
 
 The package, which also contained a letter written in poor French with spelling and grammar errors, was dated March 21 - the day police surrounded Merah in his apartment in Toulouse after a massive manhunt. 
 
 Zied Tarrouche, Al Jazeera's Paris bureau chief, said the images were a bit shaky but of a high technical quality. He also said the video had clearly been manipulated after the fact, with religious songs and recitations of Quranic verses laid over the footage. 
 
 "Investigators are trying to find out whether the letter was posted [last] Tuesday night by Mohamed Merah himself or by an accomplice Wednesday morning," Le Parisien daily newspaper reported. 
 
 The French newspaper Le Figaro reported that the package containing the video files was sent from a southern suburb of Toulouse, and a French official close to the investigation has said it was not sent by Merah. 
 
 'Despicable images' 
 
 French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in mid-campaign for re-election, urged television networks on Tuesday not to broadcast the video. Family members of the victims also asked that the footage not be aired. 
 
 "I ask the managers of all television stations that might have these images not to broadcast them in any circumstances, out of respect for the victims - out of respect for the Republic," Sarkozy said. 
 
 Meanwhile, Merah's father, who was estranged from his son and lives in Algeria, has reportedly said he wants to file a complaint for Mohammed's death. In his address, Sarkozy expressed outrage at that idea. 
 
 "It's with indignation that I learned that the father of the assassin of seven people - including three soldiers and three children - wanted to file a lawsuit against France for the death of his son," Sarkozy said. 
 
 "Do we need to remind this man that his son filmed his crimes and diabolically made sure to send these despicable images to a television station?" 
 
 Sarkozy has said Merah was not part of a terror cell, but four anti-terrorist judges are heading the investigation into whether his brother, Abdelkader, was an accomplice, and whether anyone else might have been involved. 
 
 Preliminary charges for complicity in murder and terrorism have been filed against Abdelkader, though no evidence has emerged that he took part directly in the shooting. 
 
 Mohammed, who had attended an Islamist training camp in Pakistan, used a stolen scooter and a Colt 45 pistol to carry out his attacks over eight days before being cornered by police and eventually shot dead after a dramatic 30-hour siege. 
 
 The gunman's family has decided to have him buried in Algeria, his parents' native country, to avoid a grave in France being attacked or becoming a place of pilgrimage, an official of a Paris mosque said. 

 An undated and non-datelined frame grab from a video broadcast March 21, 2012 by French national television station France 2 who they claim to show Mohamed Merah, the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days in France. 
 
 PARIS Video footage filmed by the French gunman Mohamed Merah during his bloody shooting spree has been sent to the Al Jazeera television network in Paris, a police source said on Monday. 
 
 Al Jazeera received a computer memory drive containing a montage of footage accompanied by Islamist war songs, and sent the package on to police on Monday, the source close to the investigation told Reuters. 
 
 An Al Jazeera employee contacted by Reuters confirmed the report. 
 
 The package was dated Wednesday, March 21, the day that police surrounded Merah in his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse after a massive manhunt, according to a report in the Parisien daily newspaper. 
 
 French special forces shot the young Islamist the following day after a 30-hour siege. 
 
 "Investigators are trying to find out whether the letter was posted Tuesday night by Mohamed Merah himself or by an accomplice Wednesday morning," the newspaper wrote. 
 
 Merah, who said he was inspired by al Qaeda, admitted to killing three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi in a spate of shootings that sent shockwaves through France. 
 
 The Paris prosecutor in charge of the case said last week that the Merah had filmed each of the shootings. 
 
 (Reporting By Gerard Bon; Writing by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
– Mohamed Merah's video of his killing spree will not see the light of day, at least not by way of al-Jazeera. The network announced that the video neither provided any fresh info nor met al-Jazeera's code of ethics for broadcast. It revealed that Merah's face was never shown in the video, and he made no statement in it. Nicolas Sarkozy earlier warned al-Jazeera and all other media to not even think about airing the footage "out of respect for the victims and for France." The USB stick sent to al-Jazeera contains a 25-minute "video montage of the various killings set to music and readings from the Koran," a police source tells Reuters. Investigators are trying to determine if the gunman sent it himself or if it was mailed by an accomplice. Merah, who told police he was responsible for the murders of three French soldiers, a rabbi, and three Jewish children, wore a camera around his neck as he carried out the killings. He boasted that he had uploaded video of the attacks to the Internet, although it hasn't been found online, the Telegraph notes. French prosecutors have filed murder and terrorism charges against Merah's brother.