Monday, 26 March 2018

France mourns 'hero' officer who took place of hostage in attack

France mourns 'hero' officer who took place of hostage in attackBy Brian Love and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an Islamist militant, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, a gendarme who once served in Iraq, had been raced to hospital fighting for his life after being shot by the gunman during the siege at the Super U store in the southwestern town of Trebes near the Pyrenees mountains.




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