Mohamed Merah, French born of Algerian origins with a chequered past. Radicalisation in the Asian battlegrounds came after a delinquent adolescence.
He accrued a string of convictions mostly for theft, some involving violence. He later served time in a French jail.
But that was not enough to prick the interest of French intelligence:
Merah's lawyer Christian Etelin explained:
...
http://www.euronews.net/
