{"id":346,"date":"2018-03-24T13:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=346"},"modified":"2018-03-24T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T09:04:37","slug":"french-officer-dies-after-swapping-places-with-a-hostage-in-supermarket-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/03\/24\/french-officer-dies-after-swapping-places-with-a-hostage-in-supermarket-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"French officer dies after swapping places with a hostage in supermarket attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A police officer who swapped places with a female hostage during a supermarket attack in France has died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame died serving the nation to which he had already given so much to,&#8221; French President Emmanuel Macron said, hailing him as a hero.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The gunman shot<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Beltrame when he responded to Friday&#8217;s supermarket attack in the southern city of Tr\u00e8bes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">When he went inside the supermarket, he left his phone on so police could hear his interactions with the gunman,<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">as soon as they heard gunfire, police went in and killed the gunman.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer who swapped places with a female hostage during a supermarket attack in France has died. &#8220;Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame died serving the nation to which he had already given so much to,&#8221; French President Emmanuel Macron said, hailing him as a hero. The gunman shot\u00a0Beltrame when he responded to Friday&#8217;s supermarket attack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}