Police raided the French school gunman’s home as he was poised to carry out another series of shootings, a prosecutor said.

A police raid on the home of the Jewish school shooting suspect turned into a gun battle then a stand-off today.

French police officers have exchanged gunfire and are negotiating with a man who claims connections to al Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in three attacks.

The bodies of three children and a rabbi gunned down at a Jewish school in France were flown to Israel today for burial, as French police raided a house in Toulouse and engaged in a gunbattle with a suspect in the killings.

Thousands of French police were today hunting for the Jewish school killer described by the country’s president as “a monster on the loose”.

A gunman who killed four people at a Jewish school in southern France may have filmed the attack, the French interior minister said today.

France was gripped by fears of a serial killer on the loose after a gunman opened fire at a Jewish school, killing a teacher, his two sons and another child.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party has rejected as “grotesque” suggestions that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the victim of a plot to ruin his presidential ambitions.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared yesterday to shake up his government after a humiliating defeat by the left in regional elections pressured him to recast his reform programme.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed suddenly while jogging today on the lush grounds of the Chateau of Versailles, then was rushed by helicopter to a military hospital where he will remain overnight, his office said.

France will rejoin Nato’s military command, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s top adviser confirmed today.