Car Bomb Kills 2 in Alexandria Ahead of Presidential Election
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Sunday, March 25, 2018 7 Car bomb kills 2 in Alexandria ahead of presidential election Cairo bomb placed under a car exploded in Egypt’s second cityA Alexandria yesterday, killing two people including a policeman, two days before the country is due to hold a presidential election. The bombing, which wounded four other policemen, targeted Alexandria’s security chief, police Major General Mostafa al-Nemr, the interior ministry said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. Islamic State released a video last month in which it warned Egyptians against taking part in the upcoming vote and urged Islamists to attack security forces and Egyptian forensics team checks the location of a bombing in Alexandria leaders. and military personnel formed al-Sisi said on Friday that State news agency MENA State news agency MENA a cordon around the site of Islamic State militants would blamed the Brotherhood, quoted Nemr as saying that the explosion. Local television soon be defeated in the Sinai which is now banned in two people, a policeman and a stations later showed Nemr as he visited troops battling the Egypt and designated a driver, were killed in the blast. unharmed and inspecting the jihadists there. terrorist group, for Saturday’s Photos on social media area. Polls will open on Monday bombing. showed a burnt out car and Islamic State attempted to when voters choose between “This attempt comes in the smoke at the site of the blast. assassinate Egypt’s defense and Sisi and one little-known context of terrorist Muslim “On Saturday March 24 interior ministers in December candidate who supports the Brotherhood elements trying an explosive device planted during a trip the pair made former field marshal. All to disrupt the electoral process underneath a car exploded ... to the Sinai Peninsula, where credible opponents dropped and influence citizens into as the Alexandria security chief the hardline militant group has out in January, citing not going to the polls and drove by,” the interior ministry been waging an insurgency for intimidation by the authorities participating in the presidential said in a statement. almost five years. after the main challenger was election,” the agency said. Eyewitnesses said police President Abdel Fattah jailed. (Reuters) Hostage swap: French hero officer dies Trebes own weapon and volunteered me, ‘I’m doing my job, Mom, list, a government register of French police officer who himself in exchange for a nothing more,’” she said. individuals suspected of being offered himself up to an female hostage. People were placing flowers radicalized but who have yet to IslamicA extremist gunman in Unbeknownst to the in front of the Gendarmerie perform acts of terrorism. exchange for a hostage has Morocco-born hostage-taker, headquarters in the French Despite this, Paris prosecutor died, raising the death toll in he left his cellphone on so medieval city of Carcassone to Francois Molins said there was the attack in southern France police outside could hear what pay tribute to Lt. Col. Beltrame. “no warning sign” that Lakdim to four. He was honored was happening in the store. Flags at all gendarmeries were would carry out an attack. Saturday as a national hero They stormed the building ordered to fly at half-staff. The four-hour drama of “exceptional courage and when they heard gunshots, Macron says investigators began at 10:13 a.m. when selflessness.” officials said. Beltrame was will focus on establishing how Lakdim hijacked a car near Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, fatally wounded. the gunman, identified by Carcassonne, killing one 44, was among the first officers In addition to the four prosecutors as Morocco-born person in the car and wounding to respond to the attack people killed by the gunman Redouane Lakdim, 25, got his the other, the prosecutor said. Friday on the supermarket in in his rampage Friday, the weapon and how he became Lakdim then fired six shots the southern French town of attacker was killed by police. radicalized. at police officers on their Trebes. Fifteen others were injured. On Friday night, authorities way back from jogging near Beltrame, who joined the “Arnaud Beltrame died in searched a car and the Carcassonne, hitting one in the elite police special forces in the service of the nation to Arnaud Beltrame, French cop who ‘died a hero’ apartment complex in central shoulder, said Yves Lefebvre 2003 and served in Iraq in which he had already given so three police officers shot to married with no children. Carcassonne where Lakdim of the SGP Police-FO police 2005, had organized a training much,” President Emmanuel death in 2015, a police couple Cedric Beltrame told RTL was believed to live. Two union. session in the Aude region Macron said. “In giving his killed in their home in 2016 radio Saturday that his brother people were detained over Lakdim then went to a in December for just such a life to end the deadly plan of and a police officer killed on died “a hero.” alleged links with a terrorist Super U supermarket in hostage situation. At the time, a jihadi terrorist, he fell as a Paris’ Champs-Elysees in 2017. “He was well aware he had enterprise, one woman close nearby Trebes, 60 miles (100 he armed his officers with hero.” Dozens of others have been almost no chance. He was very to Lakdim and a friend of kilometers) southeast of paintball guns, according to the French police and soldiers wounded. aware of what he was doing,” his, a 17-year-old male, Paris Toulouse, shooting and killing Depeche du Midi newspaper. have been a prime target of According to Macron’s Cedric Beltrame said. prosecutor’s office said. two people in the market and “We want to be as close to attacks by extremists, with statement, Beltrame also served Beltrame’s mother told RTL Lakdim was known to taking hostages. France has real conditions as possible,” he 10 killed in recent years, as a member of the presidential radio that, for her son, “to police for petty crime and drug been on high alert since a series said then. including Beltrame. Other guard and in 2012 earned one defend the homeland” was “his dealing. But he was also under of extremist attacks in 2015 But when he went inside the victims include three soldiers of France’s highest honors, reason to live.” surveillance and since 2014 and 2016 that killed more than supermarket, he gave up his killed near Toulouse in 2012, the Order of Merit. He was “He would have said to was on the so-called Fiche S 200 people. (AP).