The suspected killer of four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse escaped from a prison in Afghanistan four years before carrying out the massacre.
Ghulam Faruq , the director of Kandahar prison , said that Mohammed Merah was one of hundreds of Taliban-connected prisoners who escaped during a Taliban attack on the jail in 2008.
According to the BBC, Merah was jailed for three years the previous December for planning a bomb attack in Kandahar.
According to Le Monde, as well as his time in Afghanistan, Merah – a French citizen of Algerian descent – also visited Pakistan, where he trained with Taliban militants.
