(Radio France) The trial of suspects allegedly complicit in planning the 2018 Trèbes and Carcassonne terrorist attacks in the south of France opens on Monday in Paris. Three men were shot dead in a car park and a supermarket, and a female cashier was taken hostage until a gendarme volunteered to take her place at the cost of his life.
On the morning of 23 March 2018, Radouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old small-time drug dealer from a housing estate in Carcassonne, went to a car park that had a reputation as a gay meeting place. He was highly radicalised and under police surveillance.
Lakdim took aim and shot at two men in a car. One of them, aged 61, died. The other was seriously injured.
