<br /> <p>A state funeral was held in Paris on March 28 to honour Col. Arnaud Beltrame, the police officer who died in the supermarket siege in Trebes on March 23.</p><p>The procession left the Pantheon and journeyed through the streets of Paris where the public braved the rain to pay tribute to the heroic officer.</p><p>President Emmanuel Macron made a speech at Les Invalides where he said</a> Beltrame had the “gratitude, admiration and affection of the whole country”.</p><p>Beltrame took the place of a female hostage being held by a suspected Islamist gunman in a supermarket in Trebes on March 23. He was stabbed several times by the gunman and later died of his injuries. Three other people also died in the siege. Credit: Presidency of the French Republic via Storyful</p><br />
