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WORLD NEWSSaturday 24 March 2018

Extremist slain, 3 dead after rampage in southern France

In this image taken from La Depeche Du Midi, police attend an incident in Trebes, southern France, Friday March 23, 2018. A                                                     Lakdim, got his weapon,
gun-wielding extremist went on a rampage Friday in a quiet corner of southern France, killing three people as he hijacked a car,                                                and how he became radi-
opened fire on police and took hostages in a supermarket.                                                                                                                       calized.
                                                                                                                                                                                On Friday night, authorities
                                                                                                                                                   (La Depeche Du Midi via AP)  searched a vehicle and a
                                                                                                                                                                                building in central Carcas-
By THOMAS ADAMSON               After an hours-long stand-    loved by tourists, and the   ket. Officials said once they                                                        sonne.
                                off, the 25-year-old attack-  town of Trebes. It was the   heard shots inside the mar-                                                          Lakdim was known to po-
SAMUEL PETREQUIN                er was slain as elite police  deadliest attack in France   ket they decided to storm                                                            lice for petty crime and
                                forces stormed the market.    since Emmanuel Macron        it.                                                                                  drug-dealing. But he was
RENATA BRITO                    They were aided by a he-      became president last        A police official who was                                                            also under surveillance and
                                roic police officer who had   May.                         not authorized to be pub-                                                            since 2014 was on the so-
Associated Press                offered himself up in a hos-  The officer who volun-       licly identified confirmed                                                           called "Fiche S" list, a gov-
                                tage swap and suffered        teered to take the place a   the officer's identity to The                                                        ernment register of indi-
TREBES, France (AP) — A         life-threatening wounds as    female hostage was iden-     Associated Press.                                                                    viduals suspected of being
                                a result — one of 16 people   tified as Col. Arnaud Bel-   "He saved lives," Macron                                                             radicalized but who have
gun-wielding      extremist     injured in the day's vio-     trame.                       said.                                                                                yet to perform acts of ter-
                                lence.                        He managed to surrepti-      Macron said investigators                                                            rorism. Despite this, Paris
went on a rampage Friday        The Islamic State group       tiously leave his cellphone  will focus on establishing                                                           prosecutor Francois Molins
                                claimed responsibility for    on so that police outside    how the gunman, identi-                                                              there was "no warning sign"
in a quiet corner of south-     the attack near Carcas-       could hear what was go-      fied by prosecutors as Mo-                                                           that Lakdim would carry
                                sonne, a medieval city be-    ing on inside the supermar-  roccan-born Redouane                                                                 out an extremist attack.
ern France, killing three                                                                                                                                                       A woman close to Lakdim
                                                                                                                                                                                was taken into custody
people as he hijacked a                                                                                                                                                         over alleged links with a ter-
                                                                                                                                                                                rorist enterprise, Molins said.
car, opened fire on police                                                                                                                                                      He did not identify her.
                                                                                                                                                                                The four-hour drama be-
and took hostages in a                                                                                                                                                          gan at 10:13 a.m. when
                                                                                                                                                                                Lakdim hijacked a car
supermarket, where pan-                                                                                                                                                         near Carcassonne, killing
                                                                                                                                                                                one person in the car and
icked shoppers hid in a                                                                                                                                                         wounding the other, the
                                                                                                                                                                                prosecutor said.
meat locker or ran through                                                                                                                                                      Lakdim then fired six shots
                                                                                                                                                                                at police officers who were
the aisles.                                                                                                                                                                     on their way back from jog-
                                                                                                                                                                                ging near Carcassonne,
Teen who bombed UK subway receives 34 years                                                                                                                                     said Yves Lefebvre, secre-
                                                                                                                                                                                tary general of SGP Police-
LONDON (AP) — A teenage         A judge gave 18-year-old      Judge Charles Haddon-        placed on a packed Lon-                                                              FO police union. The po-
Iraqi asylum-seeker who         Ahmed Hassan Friday a         Cave called Hassan "a        don Underground train                                                                lice were wearing athletic
told police he had been         life sentence with a re-      dangerous and devious in-    only partially detonated at                                                          clothes with police insignia.
trained by the Islamic State    quirement that he serve a     dividual" and said he plot-  Parsons Green station. Pros-                                                         One officer was hit in the
group has been sentenced        minimum term of 34 years.     ted the subway bombing       ecutors said there prob-                                                             shoulder, but the injury was
to at least 34 years in prison  A jury last week convicted    with "ruthless determina-    ably would have been                                                                 not serious, Lefebvre said.
for bombing a London sub-       Hassan of attempted mur-      tion" while pretending to    fatalities if the device had                                                         Lakdim then went to a
way train and injuring 51       der in the September 2017     be a model asylum-seeker.    functioned properly.                                                                 Super U supermarket in
people.                         attack.                       The homemade bomb he         q                                                                                    nearby Trebes, 60 miles
                                                                                                                                                                                (100 kilometers) southeast
                                                                                                                                                                                of Toulouse, shooting and
                                                                                                                                                                                killing two people in the
                                                                                                                                                                                market and taking an un-
                                                                                                                                                                                known number of hostag-
                                                                                                                                                                                es. Special police units con-
                                                                                                                                                                                verged on the scene while
                                                                                                                                                                                authorities blocked roads
                                                                                                                                                                                and urged residents to stay
                                                                                                                                                                                away.q
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