Carcassonne: A policeman was shot as a man took hostages at a supermarket in Carcassonne in southern France on Friday.
According to local reports, 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.
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The man “entered the Super U supermarket at around 11.15 am and shots were heard,” a source said of the Trebes incident. Local authorities tweeted that the area was out-of-bounds to the public.
Reportedly, a company of unarmed CRS police from Marseille who was jogging at the time were targetted by a gunman, who had initially tried to run them over in a vehicle.
“They threw themselves to the floor but one of them was hit in the shoulder,” a source told France Info radio.
According to AFP French prosecutors said the hostage-taker claimed to be linked to the terror Group Islamic state.