Paris (CNN) -- A teacher was gunned down along with his two children at a Jewish school in southern France Monday, while the director of the school saw his daughter shot and killed in front of him, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a somber appearance at the school.It is the third time in the past 10 days that a gunman on a motorcycle has fired on members of ethnic minorities in the southwest of France. Authorities believe the cases are linked, and a court in Paris has opened an investigation under anti-terrorism powers.
Monday's killing of four people at Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse was a "national tragedy," Sarkozy said. He called for a minute's silence in French schools on Tuesday.
The gunman pulled up in front of the Jewish school just before 8 a.m. and started shooting, authorities said. Read More
