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Algerian authorities have refused to allow the body of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who killed seven people in France this month to be sent there for burial, an Algerian government source and an official at a top French mosque said on Thursday.
Mohamed Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian origin who was shot dead by a police sniper last week following a more than 30-hour siege at his home in the southern city of Toulouse, will instead be buried there, Abdallah Zekri told Reuters.

The BBC referring to the incident reports that French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French TV he should be allowed to be buried in France.

"Following Algeria's last-minute refusal to accept Mohamed Merah's body, Mayor Pierre Cohen feels that his burial within the city of Toulouse is inappropriate," his office said on Thursday, according to French news agency AFP.
"Therefore he has asked the regional prefect to delay the burial by 24 hours and is raising the matter with the government."
However, President Sarkozy told France's BMFTV news channel that Merah's burial in France should go ahead, AFP reports.

"He was French. Let him be buried and let's not have any arguments about it," Mr Sarkozy said as the sources report.