Video shows Paris airport attacker rushing soldier

shows the attacker grabbing the soldier as her companion patrols slightly ahead.

He drops his bag, which authorities said contained a flask of gasoline. Holding a revolver loaded with birdshot, he pulls her backward.

For a few moments, almost no one reacts. One passenger rolls a suitcase past the hostage soldier, and the second soldier continues on his way. Then, suddenly, people start backing away en masse as the attacker pulls his hostage toward them.

Yelling that he wanted to kill and die for Allah, according to the Paris prosecutor, Ziyed Ben Belgacem can be seeing trying to wrestle away the soldier’s assault rifle.

The video shows Belgacem using her as a shield after he apparently manages to get control of the weapon, but he exposes himself by standing up, giving her comrades a clear shot to kill him. The hostage soldier crawls away from her attacker on her hands and knees.

The episode took less than three minutes. No one at the airport was injured. The footage was provided on the condition that the source not be revealed.

Authorities say Belgacem, a 39-year-old Frenchman, had a long criminal record of drug and robbery offenses.

Autopsy toxicology tests found traces of cocaine and cannabis in Belgacem’s blood, according to the Paris prosecutors’ office.

In an interview Sunday, a man identified as the suspect’s father said Belgacem wasn’t a practicing Muslim.