PARIS (Reuters) – A man killed in stabbing Monday night a police commander and his companion in Magnanville (Yvelines), in an attack claimed by the Islamic State (EI) and considered a “terrorist act” by the french government.
“This is undoubtedly a terrorist act,” said Francois Hollande in a speech at the OECD, after chairing a meeting at the Elysee Palace. “The author himself had wanted his act to be recognized as a terrorist organization and which he claimed has also claimed responsibility for the act.”
The attack, which ended with the intervention of the Raid elite forces killed the assailant, has indeed been claimed by Daech QAMA via its agency, seven months after the attacks of 13 November which had 130 deaths.
Larossi Abballa told negotiators Raid have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State three weeks before his act, said Tuesday the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.
“in (the) negotiations with Raid the killer said to be a practicing Muslim and Ramadan, he said it had pledged allegiance three weeks earlier the commander of the believers of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “he said at a conference release.
“he added, answering a press this emir, who asked, quote, kill the unbelievers among them with their families,” he added, threatening “blow everything up if the police intervened.”
three mobile phones and three knives, including a bloodied on the table, were also discovered at the home of the victims, but investigators found no weapons fire or explosives.
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Larossi Abballa, a 25 year old man of Moroccan origin born in France, arrested in 2011 and sentenced in 2013 to three years in prison, six months suspended sentence in the trial of a conveyor chain of jihadists into Pakistan.
Released at the end of his trial, his sentence has been served in custody interim, the suspect was then discreetly monitored by intelligence services. [L8N1961SL]
When his name reappeared recently in a criminal investigation into a man left in Syria, he was placed on judicial listening, but it did not work.
“These intercepts were not so far revealed any element to detect the preparation of a transition to the violent act, they could do so at this stage justify an inquiry initiated the investigating judge, “said the prosecutor.
Three men of 27, 29 and 44 of the killer’s entourage were taken into custody on Tuesday, he said.
Larossi Abballa published a few minutes after the attack, when he was entrenched with his victims, a 12-minute advocacy video sent to more than one hundred contacts and claim two posts on Twitter , explained the prosecutor.
in this video that Reuters could see it threatens namely the famous French journalists, a known Islamic scholar and French rappers and spectators Euro 2016 football which he hopes “a cemetery”.
he also asked to target MPs and police.
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Jean-Baptiste Salvaing commander Police Commissioner of Les Mureaux, aged 42, was killed nine stab wounds to the abdomen outside his home in Magnanville, fifty kilometers west of Paris.
police had previously worked at the police station of Mantes-la-Jolie, town where lived Larossi Abballa said Michel Lebouc Mayor Magnanville.
the assailant was then cut at the home of a police officer. The corpse of Jessica Schneider, his wife 36 years old, administrative officer at the Mantes-la-Jolie police station, was found in the house where a three year old child was recovered shocked but unharmed.
the killing was seen as a “blast” by police who feel directly targeted.
the two victims “were struck because they were police officers,” said François Hollande to Elysee.
“I will be alongside the security forces of our countries experiencing right now even great sadness and great anger,” he said.
the attack came two days after the killing of Orlando, Florida, where 49 customers of a gay nightclub were shot by an American 29 year old named Omar Mateen and born of Afghan parents. The Islamic state has claimed his act but US officials say they have found no direct link between the killer and Daech.
François Hollande met in the evening with Barack Obama, said the Elysee in a statement. “They agreed to further increase cooperation between French and American security services to a threat which is constantly changing. France and its allies continue to oppose force democracies to barbarism,” added the president.
(China Labbé, Myriam Rivet and Elizabeth Pineau)
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