Larossi Abballa, 25, stabbed Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and then his wife Jessica in front of their three-year-old son. “This commander, this police officer was killed by the individual…” Salvaing was dressed in plain clothes.
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The knifeman who killed a French police commander and his partner at their home on Monday had recently pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State.
Officers found the woman’s body when they stormed the house, and the attacker was killed during the assault, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said. He said attackers were “professionalising” and could now find police in their homes.
The president of France, Francois Hollande, believes this is no doubt an act of terrorism.
In a grim assessment of the broader climate in France, Valls said terrorists would inevitably strike again, that police were also working overtime to avert fan violence during a month-long European soccer championship and that the anti-reform protests had now degenerated into “unbearable violence”.
“The minister announced to us that the authorisation to bear arms would be extended beyond the state of emergency”, said Yves Lefebvre of the Unite SGP-FO group, after he and other union leaders met Cazeneuve.
Plainclothes police Mr Molins said Salvaing, who was the plainclothes deputy head of judiciary police at Les Mureaux commissariat, was attacked between 8pm and 8.20pm.
As the special police forces surrounded the murdered officer’s house, where Mr. Abballa was holed up, cordoning off the modest neighborhood that is home to both non-Muslims and Muslims, Mr. Abballa asked his “brothers” to pray to Allah that he might become a martyr. “I call upon you to kill policemen, prison guards, journalists, and specifically, yes yes yes yes, listen to me well and apply this: attack the journalists”.
The police officer killed Monday had nothing to do with the investigation that resulted in Abballa’s imprisonment, and Abballa never carried out his plan to go to Pakistan, although he had wanted to, Denis said. The men are aged 27, 29 and 44, Paris prosecutor François Molins said.
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. Police did not identify his partner but said she was an administrator for police in Mantes-La-Jolie. Well you have another thing coming.
Police have also revealed that Abballa knew the policeman he attacked. Islamic State is also known as Isis.
Monday night’s sickening attack is not the first time police have been targeted in jihadist attacks on French soil.
Under the ongoing state of emergency French police officers are already permitted to bear their arms while off duty.
This may have been one of those attacks. It occurred during heightened security measures for Euro 2016.
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The government has called the killing a terrorist attack, and Valls said there would be inevitably be more deaths.
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Amaq reported that an IS fighter carried out the attack, and prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said French authorities have “no reason” to doubt the claim. They occurred just one day after a rampage in the United States, at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, left 49 people dead.
