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A gendarme who exchanged himself for ahostage during the French supermarket siege
has died, bringing the number of victims tofour. Police shot dead the attacker after a
series of attacks claimed by Islamic State in Carcassonne, southern France, that culminated
in the three-hour hostage-taking.
The attacker, named as Radouane Lakdim, 25, was born in Morocco and lived in Carcassonne.
He was known to police for petty crimes and drug-dealing. The state prosecutor François
Molins said he had been under surveillance in 2016 and 2017 for his “radicalism and proximity
to Salafist movements” but had showed no signs he was going to carry out an attack.
Questions will be asked as to how Lakdim was able to obtain a weapon and carry out
attacks when he had been monitored by security services.
The interior minister, Gérard Collomb, said: “We had monitored him and did not think he had
been radicalised.” He added: “He was already under surveillance when he suddenly decided
to act.”
Just after 10am on Friday, Lakdim, stopped a white Opel Corsa car on the outskirts of
Carcas sonne, before shooting and killing the pas sen ger and seriously injuring the driver.
The prosecutor said Lakdim then drove off in the car and appeared to wait outside a military
barracks for soldiers. He then drove to a riot police squad barracks and shot at four officers
200 metres away who had been out jogging. He seriously wounded one of group, who
suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung. A bul let struck near one officer’s heart.
Lakdim then drove to a Super U supermarket 8km away in Trèbes, a sleepy town of 5,000
people near Carcassonne. At about 11am, he walked into the shop shouting Allahu Akbar
and claiming he was a soldier from Islamic State.
Around 50 people were inside the building. Lakdim opened fire, killing one supermarket
worker and one customer. Christian Guibbert, a former police officer, was
shopping when he heard several shots. … 

Gendarmes attempting to evacuate the supermarket found Lakdim holding several
hostages. A gendarme volunteered to take the hostages’ place. The gunman agreed to the swap,
so the gendarme stayed with him while others were evacuated. That gendarme left his mobile
phone line open on a table so security forces outside could hear what was going on inside.
When security forces outside the store heard via the telephone that a shot was fired, they immediately
stormed the supermarket and shot Lak dim dead.
Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame, the gendarme who had swapped places with the hostages, was found
seriously injured. Early on Saturday morning, the French interior ministry said Beltra me had
died from his injuries.

Collomb praised the officer’s heroism. Two other officers were injured by gunshots during
the assault. The situation at the supermarket lasted just
over three hours, during which the gunman had asked for the release of Salah Abdeslam,
the only surviving suspect from the group that carried out the November 2015 Paris
attacks, French state TV reported. Abdeslam is in solitary confinement in a French prison as the
investigation into the Paris attacks continues. The interior ministry said Lakdim was acting
alone in Friday’s attack. The state prosecutor said he had been on an intelligence watchlist
since 2014. Lakdim had been convicted twice in 2011 and 2015 for petty crime, including
drug offences. He had served one month in prison in 2016. The prosecutor said that during
surveillance, security services had not seen signs that suggested Lakdim would commit an
attack.

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