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French jihadist police killer 'obeyed Islamic State call'
14 June 2016
The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was
acting on a call from so-called Islamic State (IS) to "kill infidels",
officials say.
Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal
to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said.
A police commander and his partner were stabbed to death at their
home. Their three-year-old son survived.
IS has put out a video showing Abballa confessing to the killings.
The 11-minute video, on the IS news agency Amaq, apparently shows him
in the home of the couple before police stormed in.
In it Abballa, 25, urged Muslims in France to target police officers,
prison guards, journalists, politicians and mayors. He named several
prominent French journalists.
He said he was heeding a call by IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani,
who issued a message before the start of Ramadan inciting Muslims to
target civilians in Europe and the US.
■Who was Larossi Abballa?
■Profile of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
■France releases terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016
■Extra police deployed across France
The video is apparently the same as one that Abballa posted on
Facebook Live, hours before police killed him, in which he swore
allegiance to IS.
Abballa's crime was "a terrorist act", President Francois Hollande
said, and France still faced "a significant threat".
The attack happened in Magnanville, about 55km (35 miles) north-west
of the French capital.
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Larossi Abballa, who carried out the attack, was sentenced to jail in
2013 over his links to jihadist groups
Hours after the shootout there was a heavy police presence in the
leafy suburb of Magnanville
During negotiations prior to the police assault on Monday, Abballa
said he had pledged his loyalty to the IS leader three weeks earlier.
■About 20:30 local time (18:30 GMT) Monday - Abballa ambushes the
police commander, stabbing him nine times, police say
■Abballa enters the man's home, taking his partner, herself a
policewoman, and their young son hostage
■20:52 - Abballa claims the attack in a live Facebook post
■21:30 - elite anti-terror police arrive at the house and a siege starts
■About midnight - police assault after Abballa threatened to blow the place up.
When police stormed in they killed Abballa and found the dead woman,
whose throat had been slashed. The little boy was in a state of shock.
French media are naming them as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and
Jessica Schneider, 36.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack "a watershed in
terms of horror - the home, the intimate life of a family, of a couple
of civil servants, was targeted".
In 2013, Abballa was jailed for recruiting fighters for jihad in Pakistan.
He had been under recent police surveillance, including a wiretap.
Three people linked to Abballa have been arrested and placed in
custody.
In the video - later removed from Facebook - Abballa considers what to
do with the couple's son, according to French jihad expert David
Thomson, who watched it.
According to David Thomson, at one point during the Facebook Live
video: "The baby is behind him, on the sofa. After killing his parents
he says: 'I don't know yet what I'm going to do with him'"
"I don't know yet what I'm going to do with him," the killer is heard saying.
He also made a threatening reference to the Euro 2016 football tournament.
Officers of an elite police unit stormed the house in Magnanville
France has been under a state of emergency since the Paris attacks of
13 November 2015 in which IS jihadists killed 130 people.
That state of emergency is still in place. France is on high alert as
it hosts the Euro tournament, which started last Friday.
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14 June 2016
The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was
acting on a call from so-called Islamic State (IS) to "kill infidels",
officials say.
Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal
to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said.
A police commander and his partner were stabbed to death at their
home. Their three-year-old son survived.
IS has put out a video showing Abballa confessing to the killings.
The 11-minute video, on the IS news agency Amaq, apparently shows him
in the home of the couple before police stormed in.
In it Abballa, 25, urged Muslims in France to target police officers,
prison guards, journalists, politicians and mayors. He named several
prominent French journalists.
He said he was heeding a call by IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani,
who issued a message before the start of Ramadan inciting Muslims to
target civilians in Europe and the US.
■Who was Larossi Abballa?
■Profile of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
■France releases terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016
■Extra police deployed across France
The video is apparently the same as one that Abballa posted on
Facebook Live, hours before police killed him, in which he swore
allegiance to IS.
Abballa's crime was "a terrorist act", President Francois Hollande
said, and France still faced "a significant threat".
The attack happened in Magnanville, about 55km (35 miles) north-west
of the French capital.
n
Larossi Abballa, who carried out the attack, was sentenced to jail in
2013 over his links to jihadist groups
Hours after the shootout there was a heavy police presence in the
leafy suburb of Magnanville
During negotiations prior to the police assault on Monday, Abballa
said he had pledged his loyalty to the IS leader three weeks earlier.
■About 20:30 local time (18:30 GMT) Monday - Abballa ambushes the
police commander, stabbing him nine times, police say
■Abballa enters the man's home, taking his partner, herself a
policewoman, and their young son hostage
■20:52 - Abballa claims the attack in a live Facebook post
■21:30 - elite anti-terror police arrive at the house and a siege starts
■About midnight - police assault after Abballa threatened to blow the place up.
When police stormed in they killed Abballa and found the dead woman,
whose throat had been slashed. The little boy was in a state of shock.
French media are naming them as Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and
Jessica Schneider, 36.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack "a watershed in
terms of horror - the home, the intimate life of a family, of a couple
of civil servants, was targeted".
In 2013, Abballa was jailed for recruiting fighters for jihad in Pakistan.
He had been under recent police surveillance, including a wiretap.
Three people linked to Abballa have been arrested and placed in
custody.
In the video - later removed from Facebook - Abballa considers what to
do with the couple's son, according to French jihad expert David
Thomson, who watched it.
According to David Thomson, at one point during the Facebook Live
video: "The baby is behind him, on the sofa. After killing his parents
he says: 'I don't know yet what I'm going to do with him'"
"I don't know yet what I'm going to do with him," the killer is heard saying.
He also made a threatening reference to the Euro 2016 football tournament.
Officers of an elite police unit stormed the house in Magnanville
France has been under a state of emergency since the Paris attacks of
13 November 2015 in which IS jihadists killed 130 people.
That state of emergency is still in place. France is on high alert as
it hosts the Euro tournament, which started last Friday.
--
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