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A police officer who swapped places with a female hostage during a supermarket attack in France has died.
“Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame died serving the nation to which he had already given so much to,” French President Emmanuel Macron said, hailing him as a hero.
The gunman shot Beltrame when he responded to Friday’s supermarket attack in the southern city of Trèbes.
Beltrame offered to exchange himself for one of the female hostages held inside the Super U supermarket during the attack, and was shot while entering the supermarket.
When he went inside the supermarket, he left his phone on so police could hear his interactions with the gunman,
as soon as they heard gunfire, police went in and killed the gunman.
