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French shooter was ‘abandoned child,’ attorney says

By Johanna Decorse

 |  Associated Press  

  March 29, 2012

The 23-year-old man who claimed responsibility for a killing spree in southern France had separated from his wife days before the attacks and was suffering “psychological difficulties,’’ his lawyer said. In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, attorney Christian Etelin sought to portray his now-slain client as a “lone wolf’’ with no organized crime or terrorist connections and as “an abandoned child’’ angry at a long-absent father.

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