A gunman who killed four people at a French Jewish school may have filmed the attack.
With hundreds of police combing southern France for the assassin, who is suspected in three other deaths, Interior Minister Claude Gueant says he was seen "wearing around his neck an apparatus" that could be used to film and post video online.
This had given investigators new clues to the killer's "profile," Gueant said on Tuesday, though he admitted they did not appear to be close to an arrest.
He described the suspect as "someone very cold, very determined, very much a master of his movements and by consequence, very cruel."
Asked whether the gunman recorded the scene, Gueant responded, "We can imagine that."
However, he added that authorities had not yet found any images of the killings online.
Gueant was speaking in the city of Toulouse, where an unidentified assailant opened fire at a Jewish school Monday, killing a rabbi and his two sons and the daughter of the school principal.
Authorities say one of the same weapons was used in the killings of three French paratroopers last week.
Schools around France are holding a moment of silence on Tuesday to honour the victims of the shootings.
President Nicolas Sarkozy is meeting with members of France's Jewish and Muslim community. France has the largest population of Jews and Muslims in western Europe.
The paratroopers targeted last week, also in the Toulouse region, were of North African and French Caribbean descent.
Concerns are mounting about a suspected racist and anti-Semitic serial killer.
In all three killings, the assailant fled on a motorbike.
The shootings have echoed across a nation that has been focused on an upcoming presidential race in which issues about religious minorities and race have gained prominence.
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