A general view shows gendarmes and police officers at a supermarket after a hostage situation in Trebes, France, March 23, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
TREBES, France (Reuters) - Christian Guibbert described how he walked into the middle of a hostage-taking at his local supermarket on Friday and escaped only after the attacker yelling "God is greatest" in Arabic lunged at him with a knife.
Shoppers in the southwestern French town of Trebes also hid themselves in the supermarket's cold store - repeating a survival technique used when an Islamist attacker took hostages three years ago at a Jewish deli in Paris.
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