<p>President Nicolas Sarkozy and families of the victims urged television networks on Tuesday not to broadcast graphic videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer during his shooting spree in France.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said it was considering broadcasting the videos — which include footage shot by Mohamed Merah during his attacks that left seven people dead — after they were sent to its Paris bureau on a USB memory key. <br /><br />French officials also reacted with fury to threats from Merah’s father to sue over his killing in a gunbattle with police last Thursday at the end of a 32-hour siege of his apartment in Toulouse.<br /><br />And police said they believed the al-Qaeda inspired gunman, branded a “monster” in France, may have had one or more accomplices who sent the footage to Al-Jazeera.<br /></p>
<p>President Nicolas Sarkozy and families of the victims urged television networks on Tuesday not to broadcast graphic videos shot by an Islamist extremist killer during his shooting spree in France.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said it was considering broadcasting the videos — which include footage shot by Mohamed Merah during his attacks that left seven people dead — after they were sent to its Paris bureau on a USB memory key. <br /><br />French officials also reacted with fury to threats from Merah’s father to sue over his killing in a gunbattle with police last Thursday at the end of a 32-hour siege of his apartment in Toulouse.<br /><br />And police said they believed the al-Qaeda inspired gunman, branded a “monster” in France, may have had one or more accomplices who sent the footage to Al-Jazeera.<br /></p>