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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