In Monday night’s assault, Abballa, who was under surveillance after serving time for links to armed groups in Pakistan, stabbed Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and took the police commander’s partner Jessica Schneider and the couple’s three-year-old son hostage before killing the woman by slitting her throat.
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Valls’ statement comes just two days after a French police officer and his partner, who also worked for law enforcement, were stabbed to death at their home west of Paris.
This is a still taken from video released Tuesday June 14, 2015 by Islamic State’s Amaq news agency that it says is a video showing Larossi Abballa the suspect in the knifing of a French police couple confessing to the killings.
He was killed by French security forces when they raided the police house where he was holed out with the couple’s 3-year-old son.
In the wake of the attack in Magnanville, police unions said officers will now be able to carry weapons while off-duty beyond a state of emergency that was declared after the November attacks, but which is due to expire next month.
“I just killed a police officer and his wife”, he says, adding: “The police are now surrounding me”.
Abballa was born in the Paris commuter town of Mantes-la-Jolie, close to the murder scene.
Hours before the killing, Abballa went to his neighborhood mosque and prayed so long that mosque employees had to make him leave.
Abballa, the sources said, had been sentenced in 2013 to a three-year term, six months of which were suspended, for “criminal association with the aim of preparing terrorist acts”, in a trial with seven other defendants.
“I saw the little boy when a fireman brought him out of the house and he was traumatised”.
French authorities have identified the attacker as 25 year-old Larossi Abballa.
It was not the first time that Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope have captured acts of violence, including an alleged rape and a shooting. The last publicly available post was a mock-up of the European Championship logo, highlighting what the poster said were masonic and occult symbols.
In all, 41 people were injured, majority police officers.
His last Facebook post was an image of Euro 2016 logo, a crucifixion and a Masonic symbol with a caption that read: “And some will say people see evil everywhere!”
After meeting with ministers earlier at the Elysee for an emergency cabinet meeting, Hollande had said the attack was “an act of incontestable terrorism”. He said attackers are “professionalizing” and can now find police in their homes.
The attack comes days after a man who authorities believe was inspired to act-but not directed-by the extremist group killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., the worse mass shooting in USA history.
The killing came after a gunman claiming to be acting in the name of Islamic State shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
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And with the leaders of terror group Isis having called for their followers to target representatives of the French state, police in France have also called for more protection.
