The suspect of the Jewish school gunfire was arrested in Toulouse.

About 300 French police officers surrounded a house in Toulouse early Wednesday morning, trying to coax the suspect in a series of deadly shootings - including a rabbi at a Jewish school - to hand himself over to police after an hours-long siege in which he wounded three officers.

As the standoff stretched to its fifth hour, the 24-year-old suspect showed no signs of surrendering.

The man inside the building where the operation is taking place has claimed affiliation to al-Qaeda, the French Interior Minister Claude Gueant has told reporters. The minister said the gunman was a French citizen of Algerian origin who had been to Pakistan and Afghanistan and had shot dead the four in revenge for French military involvement abroad. He is also suspected by authorities of killing three soldiers of North African origin last week.

Claude Gueant also added that the gunman's brother had already placed under arrest.

The mother of the 24-year-old suspect was taken to the site to ‘negotiate with her son and persuade him to surrender.