Police storm French supermarket ‘and shoot ISIS gunman’ who was holding hostages as it emerges he had killed a person before beginning his siege, where he killed two of his captives
The Moroccan stormed a Super U supermarket in Trebes, south west France, and took hostages this morning
Special police forces later descended on the supermarket and shot the suspect dead, ending the siege
Fanatic, armed with a gun, knives and a grenade, had hijacked a car, killing a passenger and injuring the driver
The gunman, named as Redouane Lakdim, 26, then shot at officers and injured in nearby city of Carcassonne
He then drove to supermarket and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar, I’ll kill you all’ before killing a worker and shopper
Man said to have demanded release of Salah Abdeslam the last surviving suspect in 2015 ISIS attack in Paris
By JULIAN ROBINSON and PETER ALLEN
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 March 2018
An ISIS fanatic has been shot dead by police in France after he killed three people in a gun rampage and supermarket hostage siege.
The lone extremist, armed with a gun, knives and a grenade, hijacked a car, shot its passenger in the head and fired at police officers in Carcassonne, south west France, before driving to a Super U shop in Trebes.
After screaming ‘Allahu Akbar, I’ll kill you all’, the Moroccan Islamist, named as 26-year-old Redouane Lakdim, killed a butcher and a shopper while terrified customers either fled from the store or hid in a cold room.
During his siege, Lakdim demanded the release of Salah Abdeslam, 28, the last surviving suspect in the 2015 ISIS attack in Paris that left 130 dead.
But after an hours-long standoff, special police units converged on the scene and stormed the supermarket. French President Emmanuel Macron this afternoon called Lakdim’s rampage a ‘terrorist act’.
French investigators said the man was known to intelligence services and had been flagged in a database of radicalised militants. His home was raided today and a neighbour said she had seen Lakdim ‘taking one of his younger sisters to school’ before he launched his attack.
It has emerged that a French military officer took the place of one of the supermarket hostages, entering the danger zone as the drama unfolded. The 45-year-old lieutenant-colonel swapped himself in exchange of one of the hostages, enabling him to negotiate with the terrorist and left his mobile phone on a table so police could hear what was happening.
This afternoon, ISIS claimed that one of its ‘soldiers’ had carried out the attack ‘in response to the calls to attack Coalition countries’.
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