France shooting: Hostage swap officer 'fighting for life

 

A Portuguese national said to have been killed was in fact seriously injured, a government official in Lisbon said later, according to AFP news agency.

What do we know about the suspect?

Redouane Lakdim, who was born in April 1992 in Morocco and had French nationality, was known to French intelligence services.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said he had been on an extremist watch-list due to "his radicalisation and his links with the Salafist movement", a hardline offshoot of Sunni Islam. But subsequent investigations by intelligence services had not turned up any signs he would act, he said.
Lakdim was found guilty of carrying a prohibited weapon in 2011 and convicted for drug use and refusing a court order in 2015, Mr Molins said.
Earlier, Mr Collomb said that though he had been known to authorities as a petty criminal. they "did not think he had been radicalised".
Lakdim lived in an apartment in Carcassonne with his parents and several sisters. A neighbour saw him taking one of his sisters to school on Friday morning.
The family's apartment was raided by police on Friday afternoon.