 "Police are seen at the scene of a hostage situation in a supermarket in Trebes, Aude, France")
France terror attack:A French police officer who swapped himself for a hostage in a supermarket siege in Trebes has died, a minister said on Saturday.
Announcing the Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame's death on Twitter, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said: "He died for his country. France will never forget his heroism, his bravery, his sacrifice," reports the BBC. The gendarme helped bring an end to a gunman's shooting spree on Friday that killed three in southern France.
The radical Islamist gunman, Redouane Lakdim, 25, was shot dead. Beltrame had been hailed as a hero by French President Emmanuel Macron. On Friday night, Macron had
