Paris prosecutor Francois Molins (hand in pocket) speaks to French security and police outside the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes, southern France, where a man took hostages killing at least two before he was killed by security forces on March 23, 2018.
Security forces killed a gunman who first hijacked a car in nearby by Carcassonne, killing a passenger and injuring the driver, before shooting a policeman who was out jogging with his colleagues nearby. He then drove to a Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes and holed up there for more than three hours with hostages, killing at least two other people, according to sources. (Photo: AFP)
Egypt has condemned a deadly hostage-taking incident in southern France which authorities have said appears to be a terrorist attack.
On Friday morning, an armed man took a number of people hostage in a supermarket in the small town of Trebes near Toulouse, killing three people and injuring about a dozen others before shot being dead by police.
"Egypt will continue all efforts and coordination with counterparts in the international community in countering all forms of terrorism, and eliminating the sources of its finance and expansion," an Egyptian foreign ministry statement read.
"Egypt also stands with the friendlu country of France against terrorism," the statement read, adding that these “contemptible acts” will not stop France or its partners from combating terrorism, which aims at the disruption of stability.
French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier that the incident appeared to be a terror attack.
Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack, in a statement released online, writing that "a soldier of the caliphate" had carried out the attack, according to Reuters.
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