16 injured in deadly French jihadist shooting
Sixteen people were hurt, two seriously, along with the three killed in the shooting spree Friday in southwest France by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group, President Emmanuel Macron said. A security source said the 16 referred to people that had been referred to an emergency psychological support cell. Five people were shot and wounded, including two in a critical condition. A police officer who took the place of a female hostage is “fighting for his life”, Macron said in a televised address following the shootings in Carcassonne and Trebes, hailing the man as a hero. The other person gravely injured was the driver of a car hijacked by the gunman. The passenger of the car was killed. “Our country has suffered an Islamist terrorist attack,” the president added. The gunman — a 26-year-old drug dealer monitored as a possible Islamic extremist — carried out three separate shootings, ending his rampage by taking hostages at a supermarket in Trebes.