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France to resume poll race after gunman’s death

France’s presidential election race resumed, irrevocably altered by the killing of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman whose murders have shifted the political debate in favour of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

Mohamed Merah’s cold-blooded shootings of seven people, including three Jewish schoolchildren, forced politicians to suspend normal campaigning while a giant manhunt closed in on the 23-year-old unemployed panel-beater.

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