French terror suspect was inspired by Toulouse murderer

French police say a man suspected of planning a thwarted attack on a nursery school was inspired by Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who killed three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, JTA reported on Thursday.

The man arrested last week in the Seine-et-Marne region near Paris described himself as the “heir of Mohammed Merah.” He reportedly had been planning an attack on children at a nursery school, and had already selected the school, BFM TV reported.