France honours ‘hero’ officer who took place of hostage
Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame died of his injuries a day after being shot and stabbed during a supermarket siege where he traded places with one of the captives.
Tributes are pouring in for a French police officer who died saving the lives of hostages in a supermarket siege in southern France on Friday.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, 44, who willingly took the place of a hostage during a standoff with a gunman, died of injuries suffered in the incident early Saturday.
The gunman, identified by prosecutors as Redouane Lakdim, who went on a shooting spree and took several people hostage, was killed and a second suspect has been arrested.
Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Carcassonne, France.
Published On 25 Mar 2018