Politician held over terror tweet

A FAR-LEFT French politician was yesterday arrested for celebrating the death of a gendarme in a terror attack.

Stéphane Poussier was detained after tweets from his account said that “every time a gendarme gets whacked…i think of my friend Rémi Fraisse”, referring to a green activist who died after police threw a stun grenade during protests in 2014. “And this time it was a colonel, great! It also means one less vote for [President] Macron.” The tweet was quickly deleted and the account was closed amid an outcry.

Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame was shot and stabbed after trading places with a female hostage taken at a supermarket in Trèbes on Friday.