School gunman may have filmed massacre Published on Wednesday 21 March 2012 05:12 THE gunman who has sparked the biggest manhunt in modern French history after killing a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school had a camera around his neck and may have filmed the killing spree, officials said. A vast police operation to trace the scooter-riding gunman was stepped up yesterday, amid fears he will launch another attack, while authorities are combing the internet in search of any footage of Monday's massacre at the Toulouse school. Thousands of police officers continued their search for the man, described by president Nicolas Sarkozy as "a monster on the loose." The gunman, who shot dead a teacher, his two young sons and a young girl, remains the prime suspect in the killing of three paratroopers of North African and French Caribbean origin in two separate shootings last week in Toulouse and the nearby town of Montauban. Schools across the country held a minute's silence to honour the victims, who were flown to Israel for burial after a farewell ceremony in Toulouse. French interior minister Claude Guéant said one line of inquiry involved three paratroopers who were expelled from a regiment near Toulouse in 2008 for suspected neo-Nazi activity. He insisted it was just one of many motives being investigated and "not favoured any more than the others." Mr Guéant said the attacker was "wearing around his neck an apparatus" that could be used to film and post video online. He said that gave investigators new clues to the killer's "profile," although he admitted they did not appear 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." Norway's Anders Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a rampage last year, had suggested in an online manifesto before the killings that a camera could be used to film such ethnic-cleansing "operations." There was no mention in his indictment that he used one. Police investigating Monday's shootings are examining the possibility that the killer is a former soldier with psychological problems and racist and antisemitic views. One soldier was briefly held over the weekend after the paratrooper killings but before the school shooting, a police official said. Behavioural analysts are also helping with the investigation, comparing the actions of the gunman with those of known serial killers such as Breivik. Mr Sarkozy told junior high school pupils in Paris yesterday: "The children are exactly like you. That could have happened here. There are beings who have no respect for life. When you grab a little girl to put a bullet in her head, without leaving her any chance, you are a monster. An antisemitic monster, but first of all a monster. Writing to Mr Sarkozy, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the shootings as "senseless acts of brutality and cowardice" and offered his support. Mr Cameron said: "People across Britain share the shock and grief that is being felt in France, and my thoughts are with the victims, their friends and their families." Meanwhile, Israeli leaders denounced one of the European Union's top diplomats for linking the deadly shooting and Israeli military attacks that kill Palestinian children. Baroness Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, said children were killed "in all sorts of terrible circumstances," including the Toulouse shootings and events "happening in Gaza." The Labour peer's comments, made at a conference on young Palestinian refugees, provoked anger in Israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was incensed by "the parallel between the pinpoint slaughter of children ... and the Israeli military's defensive surgical strikes against terrorists who use children as live shields." In a clarification, Lady Ashton said her remarks "drew no parallel whatsoever between the circumstances of the Toulouse attack and the situation in Gaza."