His funeral was never going to be straightforward.
Algeria did not want the body of Mohamed Merah.
Then the Mayor of Toulouse urged a delay in plans to lay him to rest there, the city being the scene of the 23-year-old's self-confessed killing spree.
But a deal was finally reached and a funeral took place late on Thursday at a cemetery on the outskirts of the city.
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