Woman to wed slain French soldier posthumously

A family lawyer says the pregnant girlfriend of a French soldier killed in a dramatic gun rampage will wed her partner in a posthumous ceremony. Lawyer Gilbert Collard says that 21-year-old Caroline Monet will marry Abel Chennouf, who was shot dead at a cash machine in the town of Montauban near Toulouse earlier this month. The 25-year-old soldier was one of seven people allegedly gunned down by Mohamed Merah, a French citizen who claimed to be acting as an Al-Qaeda foot soldier. Investigators have so far found no signs that he was in fact under orders from Al-Qaeda or any other militant group. Collard says Monet has received preliminary approval from the president's office for the ceremony.