French hostage crisis cop hailed as a hero

By Brian Love and Emmanuel Jarry
Updated March 24 2018 - 10:26pm, first published 10:23pm
A hostage-taker has killed two people and taken hostages in a supermarket in southern France.
A hostage-taker has killed two people and taken hostages in a supermarket in southern France.
A French police officer who intervened in Friday's Trebes siege has died.
A French police officer who intervened in Friday's Trebes siege has died.

France is in mourning for a French security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an Islamist militant.

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