ISIS returns to make France tremble. Late Friday morning an armed man broke in, firing a few shots, into the Super U supermarket in Trebes, a town in southern France near Cascassonne, causing four deaths. The assailant was killed by the special forces.
The man, shouting "Allahu Akbar" - according to the first witnesses, including some employees of the supermarket who managed to escape - immediately killed the employee at the butcher's counter of the shop. The French newspaper Depeche gave the news of a second victim, probably a customer of the supermarket, and at least a dozen injured, one of whom was in very serious condition.
About 50 employees work in the shop, but the police are still unable to define how many people were inside the shop at the time of the raid.
After a few hours, the assailant was identified thanks to the license plate of the car found in the supermarket parking lot. It would be a 26-year-old Moroccan man, already known to the transalpine secret services. The man allegedly asked the police for the release of Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015, when 130 people lost their lives.
According to the first rumors, the bomber would have been in prison in Carcassonne in 2016 and, a few months ago, would have made a trip to Syria. Before the hostage-taking, the assailant stole a car by stopping the driver and shooting at him, seriously wounding him. The man then fired on the passenger who was next to him, killing him.
The customers and employees left the supermarket about two hours after the start of the attack. The assailant remained inside with a gendarmerie officer who, according to reports, exchanged with one of the hostages but who was later also killed.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe he defined the situation as "serious" and the special forces of the Raid and the BRI are on the spot, and three helicopters are flying over. "All the information we have at present point to a terrorist act," said Philippe.
French interior minister Gerrard Collomb he answered questions from reporters present at the scene of the attack: "He is a lone wolf, he lived in Carcassonne and was known to the forces of order".
