Known for his courage and sang-froid in life, Lt.-Col. Arnaud Beltrame was honoured as a national hero Saturday after his death from wounds the day before. “Arnaud Beltrame died in the service of the nation to which he had already given so much,” President Emmanuel Macron said. In December, Beltrame organized a counterterrorism training session for just such a hostage situation — down to the location in a supermarket. Flowers piled up in front of the Gendarmerie headquarters in the French medieval city of Carcassonne to pay tribute to Beltrame. I feel deeply for the victims,” she said, adding that Beltrame “is a hero.

Source: thestar March 24, 2018 13:22 UTC