Luxembourg - The Tunisian hostage-taker, Neji Bejaoui (39), whose controversial shooting by police on Thursday ended the siege in the small Luxembourg border town of Wasserbillig is now off the critical list, Patrick Smyth reports.
But the use of a phoney TV team to lure him from the day-care centre, where he was holding 25 children and three adults, has provoked an angry reaction from press organisations. The Luxembourg police again yesterday refused to detail how the siege had ended, but according to unconfirmed press reports the gun used to shoot him may have been concealed in a special TV camera lent by German anti-terrorist police.
"The use of these tactics is very disturbing," said the president of the International Federation of Journalists, Mr Aidan White. "The consequences could be that in a genuine interview the lives of journalists could be put at risk."