French President Nicolas Sarkozy said there were striking similarities between a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, March 19 and the killing of three soldiers earlier this month in two separate incidents, Reuters reported.

"We are struck by the similarities between the modus operandi of today's drama and those last week even if we have to wait to have more elements from the police to confirm this hypothesis," Sarkozy said.

Speaking from Toulouse, he said that one of the soldiers killed in the earlier incidents had been of Caribbean origin and the other two Muslims.

A man on a scooter opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse in southwestern France on Monday, killing one adult and two children.