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FRENCH Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has confirmed three people were killed and up to 16 injured in a terror inspired hostage situation at a supermarket in southern France.
The hostages were taken Friday morning local time, by a gunman named as Redouane Lakdim, a small time drug dealer.
It is reported 26-year-old Lakdim, a French citizen born in Morocco, hijacked a car, injuring the driver and shooting the passenger in the head, near the popular tourist location of Carcassonne.
He is then thought to have fired on four police officers who were out jogging, wounding one in the shoulder, before driving to the nearby town of Trebes where he took up to 50 people hostage in a supermarket.
Gunman shot dead in French supermarket ‘terror attack’ THREE people have been killed and 16 injured after a gunman claiming allegiance to IS was shot dead by police in France.
Police Operation Underway at French Supermarket Amid Reports of Hostage Situation
FRENCH Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has confirmed three people were killed and up to 16 injured in a terror inspired hostage situation at a supermarket in southern France.
The hostages were taken Friday morning local time, by a gunman named as Redouane Lakdim, a small time drug dealer.
It is reported 26-year-old Lakdim, a French citizen born in Morocco, hijacked a car, injuring the driver and shooting the passenger in the head, near the popular tourist location of Carcassonne.
He is then thought to have fired on four police officers who were out jogging, wounding one in the shoulder, before driving to the nearby town of Trebes where he took up to 50 people hostage in a supermarket.
Two people were killed in the supermarket, local media reports. Some of the hostages had escaped while lakdim was inside and the majority of others were later released with one military officer trading himself for a female hostage.
“He saved lives and did honour to his corps and his country,” French president Emmanuel Macron said after a meeting with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and security officials.
“Now he is fighting against death and all our thoughts are with him and his family.”
Portugal’s government said Friday that a Portuguese citizen was one of the three people killed in a jihadist shooting spree in southwest France.
“The death of a Portuguese citizen has been confirmed ... by French authorities to our consular services,” Miguel Silva, a spokesman for the department concerned with Portuguese living abroad, told AFP.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa expressed his condolences to the family and friends of the victim in a statement published late Friday on the presidency website.
Le Parisian reports Lakdim was known to authorities and carried out the deadly attack after dropping his little sister at school.
Neighbours said the young man who lived with his parents and three sisters seemed “calm” and “nice”.
The 26-year-old is said to have demanded the release of Paris attacker, Salah Abdesalam, according to BFM TV. Moroccan-Belgian national Abdeslam is the prime surviving suspect in the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Trebes mayor, Eric Menassi, also told French television that the man entered the shop yelling: “Allahu Akbar, I’ll kill you all”.
French President Emmanual Macron said “everything leads us to believe it is a terror attack” and French prosecutors say they are treating the hostage-taking as a terror incident.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said all information suggested it “seems to be a terrorist act.”
EU leaders also expressed solidarity with France, with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker saying: “France has again been hit by a cowardly and bloody act, after having previously been hit hard by terrorism.”
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