8 years ago
Toulouse:
A policeman was shot and a man took hostages at a supermarket in two separate incidents in the same area of southwest France on Friday, security sources said. The policeman was shot in the town of Carcassonne, while a gunman fired shots during a hostage-taking Friday morning at a supermarket in the town of Trebes 15 minutes' drive away. According to a local news channel, the hostage-taker has claimed allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS and also that he has demanded the release of the prime surviving suspect of the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam.
