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Redouane Lakdim, claiming Daesh allegiances, killed at least three people before being shot dead by police near the tourist town of Carcassonne in southwest France on Friday.
A chronology of deadly terror attacks in France Friday 23 March 2018
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Here is a chronology of the major terror attacks that have resulted in the deaths of more than 240 people across France since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shootings.
January 7-9 2015: Said and Cherif Kouachi, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, storm the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people. A policewoman is killed just outside Paris the following day, while Amedy Coulibaly takes hostages at a Jewish supermarket, four of whom are killed. The attackers are killed in separate shootouts with police, but not before claiming allegiance to Daesh.
February 3 2015: A knife-wielding man attacks three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice. The 30-year-old assailant, Moussa Coulibaly, is arrested. In custody, he expresses his hatred for France, the police, the military and Jews.
April 19 2015: Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, is arrested on suspicion of killing a woman who was found shot dead in her car, and of planning an attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. Prosecutors say they found Daesh-related documents at his home, and that he had been in touch with a suspected extremist in Syria about an attack on a church.
June 26 2015: Frenchman Yassin Salhi, 35, kills and beheads his boss and displays the severed head, surrounded by two Daesh flags, on the fence of a gas plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southeastern France. He tries to blow up the factory, but is arrested. He commits suicide in his jail cell.
August 21 2015: Passengers prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris, tackling a man who opened fire on travelers. He was armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, an automatic pistol and a box-cutter. The gunman is identified as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, known to intelligence services for links to Daesh.
November 13 2015: France is hit by the worst terror attacks in its history. Daesh extremists armed with assault rifles and explosives strike outside a France-Germany football match at the national stadium, Paris cafes, and the Bataclan concert hall in a coordinated assault that leaves 130 people dead and more than 350 wounded.
June 13 2016: Larossi Abballa, 25, uses a knife to kill a police officer and his partner at their home in Magnanville, west of Paris, in front of their young son. Abballa is killed by a police SWAT team, but has already claimed the murders on social media on behalf of Daesh.
July 14 2016: A Tunisian plows a truck through a large crowd gathered for Bastille Day fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais in the Mediterranean city of Nice. The attack kills 86 people and injures more than 400. The driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, is shot dead by security forces. Daesh claims responsibility.
July 26 2016: Two teenagers slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest in front of five worshippers at his church in the western town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, both aged 19, are killed by police. The murder is claimed by Daesh. The teenagers had sworn allegiance to the group in a video.
April 20 2017: A 39-year-old ex-convict shoots dead an on-duty policeman and wounds two others on Paris’ Champs-Elysees avenue. Gunman Karim Cheurfi is killed by police and a note praising Daesh is found next to his body, with the group claiming responsibility.
October 1 2017: A 29-year-old Tunisian cries “Allah Akbar” (God is Greatest) and kills two young women with a knife at the main train station in the southern city of Marseille. Ahmed Hanachi is shot dead by soldiers on patrol. His attack is claimed by Daesh.
Hero French policeman dies after terrorist shooting spree Saturday 24 March 2018
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Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, 45, was among a group of officers who rushed to the scene in the southwestern town of Trebes on Friday after an attacker claiming allegiance to the Daesh group holed up in a supermarket following a shooting spree in nearby Carcassonne.
Beltrame offered to take the place of a woman being held as a final hostage by 25-year-old Radouane Lakdim, who had already shot dead the supermarket’s butcher and a customer.
Lakdim, a petty criminal who was on a watchlist over fears he had been radicalized, shot and stabbed the policeman before anti-terror officers moved in to kill him and end the siege.
Macron said the police officer, who hoped to be able to negotiate with the attacker once shoppers were taken to safety, had “died a hero.”
He deserves “the respect and admiration of the whole nation,” the president said.
Lakdim’s partner and a 17-year-old friend were in custody as investigators sought to understand events leading to the attack.
Investigators found notes at his home which refer to Daesh, a legal source said, including a hand-written letter in which he claimed allegiance to the terrorist group.
The shootings come as France remains on high alert following a string of deadly attacks that have killed more than 240 people since 2015.
Lakdim, a Moroccan-born French national, fit a familiar profile as a petty criminal who had turned to extremism.
A small-time drug-dealer, his rap sheet included convictions for carrying a banned weapon and for drug use. He spent a month in jail in 2016. “He had been on a watchlist for his radicalization and links to the Salafist movement,” said top anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins.
Lakdim started Friday’s rampage in Carcassonne, hijacking a car and shooting the two people inside. The passenger was killed, and the driver remains in a critical condition.
Lakdim then shot and wounded a policeman who was out jogging with colleagues before driving to nearby Trebes and bursting into the Super U supermarket, shouting “God is great” and saying he was a Daesh militant, ready to die for Syria,” Molins said.
He further demanded the release of certain prisoners — notably, according to a security source, Salah Abdeslam, prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Deash claimed responsibility for the attack, as is customary when the assailant has pledged allegiance to Daesh.
Experts said the attack showed the evolving nature of Daesh threat.
The persistence of the homegrown threat has largely escaped public debate in comparison to concern over foreign fighters returning home from Syria and Iraq,” said Jean-Pierre Filiu, Middle Eastern Studies professor at Sciences Po university.
The attack has rocked Trebes, a sleepy town of 5,000 located on the picturesque Canal du Midi. “We thought this only happened in big towns,” said a 52-year-old restaurant-owner who gave her name as Khadija.
Supermarket boss Samia Menassi, whose store remains closed and surrounded by police tape, was still in shock Saturday as she recalled hearing the first gunshots. “I said to the girls, ‘Call the police, there’s a terrorist in the shop’,” she told AFP. “We felt powerless because we still had colleagues in there.”
Of around 50 people in the store at the time, most were able to get out through an emergency exit, some after sheltering in a meat refrigerator.
France has suffered a series of major terrorist attacks over the past three years, including the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 in Paris, and the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice.
The most recent assault came in October when a Tunisian man stabbed to death two women at Marseille’s railway station.
A state of emergency put in place just after the 2015 Paris attacks was lifted in October when Macron’s centrist government passed a new law boosting the powers of security forces.
Thousands of French troops remain on the streets under an anti-terror operation known as Sentinelle, patrolling transport hubs, tourist hotspots and other sensitive sites.
A chronology of deadly terror attacks in France Friday 23 March 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1272236/world
Here is a chronology of the major terror attacks that have resulted in the deaths of more than 240 people across France since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shootings.
January 7-9 2015: Said and Cherif Kouachi, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, storm the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people. A policewoman is killed just outside Paris the following day, while Amedy Coulibaly takes hostages at a Jewish supermarket, four of whom are killed. The attackers are killed in separate shootouts with police, but not before claiming allegiance to Daesh.
February 3 2015: A knife-wielding man attacks three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice. The 30-year-old assailant, Moussa Coulibaly, is arrested. In custody, he expresses his hatred for France, the police, the military and Jews.
April 19 2015: Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, is arrested on suspicion of killing a woman who was found shot dead in her car, and of planning an attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. Prosecutors say they found Daesh-related documents at his home, and that he had been in touch with a suspected extremist in Syria about an attack on a church.
June 26 2015: Frenchman Yassin Salhi, 35, kills and beheads his boss and displays the severed head, surrounded by two Daesh flags, on the fence of a gas plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southeastern France. He tries to blow up the factory, but is arrested. He commits suicide in his jail cell.
August 21 2015: Passengers prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris, tackling a man who opened fire on travelers. He was armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, an automatic pistol and a box-cutter. The gunman is identified as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, known to intelligence services for links to Daesh.
November 13 2015: France is hit by the worst terror attacks in its history. Daesh extremists armed with assault rifles and explosives strike outside a France-Germany football match at the national stadium, Paris cafes, and the Bataclan concert hall in a coordinated assault that leaves 130 people dead and more than 350 wounded.
June 13 2016: Larossi Abballa, 25, uses a knife to kill a police officer and his partner at their home in Magnanville, west of Paris, in front of their young son. Abballa is killed by a police SWAT team, but has already claimed the murders on social media on behalf of Daesh.
July 14 2016: A Tunisian plows a truck through a large crowd gathered for Bastille Day fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais in the Mediterranean city of Nice. The attack kills 86 people and injures more than 400. The driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, is shot dead by security forces. Daesh claims responsibility.
July 26 2016: Two teenagers slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest in front of five worshippers at his church in the western town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, both aged 19, are killed by police. The murder is claimed by Daesh. The teenagers had sworn allegiance to the group in a video.
April 20 2017: A 39-year-old ex-convict shoots dead an on-duty policeman and wounds two others on Paris’ Champs-Elysees avenue. Gunman Karim Cheurfi is killed by police and a note praising Daesh is found next to his body, with the group claiming responsibility.
October 1 2017: A 29-year-old Tunisian cries “Allah Akbar” (God is Greatest) and kills two young women with a knife at the main train station in the southern city of Marseille. Ahmed Hanachi is shot dead by soldiers on patrol. His attack is claimed by Daesh.
Hero French policeman dies after terrorist shooting spree Saturday 24 March 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1272916/world
Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, 45, was among a group of officers who rushed to the scene in the southwestern town of Trebes on Friday after an attacker claiming allegiance to the Daesh group holed up in a supermarket following a shooting spree in nearby Carcassonne.
Beltrame offered to take the place of a woman being held as a final hostage by 25-year-old Radouane Lakdim, who had already shot dead the supermarket’s butcher and a customer.
Lakdim, a petty criminal who was on a watchlist over fears he had been radicalized, shot and stabbed the policeman before anti-terror officers moved in to kill him and end the siege.
Macron said the police officer, who hoped to be able to negotiate with the attacker once shoppers were taken to safety, had “died a hero.”
He deserves “the respect and admiration of the whole nation,” the president said.
Lakdim’s partner and a 17-year-old friend were in custody as investigators sought to understand events leading to the attack.
Investigators found notes at his home which refer to Daesh, a legal source said, including a hand-written letter in which he claimed allegiance to the terrorist group.
The shootings come as France remains on high alert following a string of deadly attacks that have killed more than 240 people since 2015.
Lakdim, a Moroccan-born French national, fit a familiar profile as a petty criminal who had turned to extremism.
A small-time drug-dealer, his rap sheet included convictions for carrying a banned weapon and for drug use. He spent a month in jail in 2016. “He had been on a watchlist for his radicalization and links to the Salafist movement,” said top anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins.
Lakdim started Friday’s rampage in Carcassonne, hijacking a car and shooting the two people inside. The passenger was killed, and the driver remains in a critical condition.
Lakdim then shot and wounded a policeman who was out jogging with colleagues before driving to nearby Trebes and bursting into the Super U supermarket, shouting “God is great” and saying he was a Daesh militant, ready to die for Syria,” Molins said.
He further demanded the release of certain prisoners — notably, according to a security source, Salah Abdeslam, prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Deash claimed responsibility for the attack, as is customary when the assailant has pledged allegiance to Daesh.
Experts said the attack showed the evolving nature of Daesh threat.
The persistence of the homegrown threat has largely escaped public debate in comparison to concern over foreign fighters returning home from Syria and Iraq,” said Jean-Pierre Filiu, Middle Eastern Studies professor at Sciences Po university.
The attack has rocked Trebes, a sleepy town of 5,000 located on the picturesque Canal du Midi. “We thought this only happened in big towns,” said a 52-year-old restaurant-owner who gave her name as Khadija.
Supermarket boss Samia Menassi, whose store remains closed and surrounded by police tape, was still in shock Saturday as she recalled hearing the first gunshots. “I said to the girls, ‘Call the police, there’s a terrorist in the shop’,” she told AFP. “We felt powerless because we still had colleagues in there.”
Of around 50 people in the store at the time, most were able to get out through an emergency exit, some after sheltering in a meat refrigerator.
France has suffered a series of major terrorist attacks over the past three years, including the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 in Paris, and the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice.
The most recent assault came in October when a Tunisian man stabbed to death two women at Marseille’s railway station.
A state of emergency put in place just after the 2015 Paris attacks was lifted in October when Macron’s centrist government passed a new law boosting the powers of security forces.
Thousands of French troops remain on the streets under an anti-terror operation known as Sentinelle, patrolling transport hubs, tourist hotspots and other sensitive sites.
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