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France French police chief and partner killed in stabbing claimed by
Isis Convicted terrorist stabs commander to death outside home in
Manganville before taking partner and son hostage
French police commander and spouse killed in possible Isis-linked
attack – video
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Tuesday 14 June 2016 07.55 BST Last modified on Tuesday 14 June 2016 09.33
President François Hollande has convened crisis talks after a man
convicted for terrorist offences and claiming allegiance to the
Islamic State stabbed a French police commander to death in front of
his house outside Paris, then killed his partner who also worked for
the police.
The 42-year-old police commander was in plain clothes when he was
stabbed to death as he arrived home at around 8.30pm on Monday night
in a quiet residential area of Magnanville, north-west of Paris.
The attacker then entered the house and held hostage the commander's
partner – who also worked in the local police administration – and the
couple's three-year-old son.
Hollande called it "incontestably a terrorist act" and said France was
facing a terror threat "of a very large scale".
Elite police squads rushed to the scene, sealed off the neighbourhood,
cut electricity and negotiated with the attacker who told them he was
a soldier for Isis and had sworn allegiance to the group.
Shortly afterwards loud detonations were heard as police stormed the
house and killed the assailant. They found the woman dead and rescued
the couple's son alive.
The attacker was identified by Le Monde and RMC radio as Larossi
Abballa, 25, who was known to police for radicalism and already had a
terrorism conviction.
He had been sentenced to three years in prison, six months suspended,
in 2013 for "criminal association in view to preparing terrorist
attacks" over his role in a recruitment network of jihadists linked to
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
French media reported Abballa had recently been under close police
surveillance as he had featured in the entourage of another man who
had left for Syria.
The French journalist and jihadhist expert, David Thomson, reported
that Abballa had used Facebook live to post images of the attack — a
video which is being examined by police. Thomson reported that while
the attacker filmed himself, the three-year-old boy was behind him on
the sofa. The attacker said "I don't know yet what I'm going to do
with him."
The attacker lived alone in nearby Mantes-la-Jolie, where the woman
worked in the local police station and where the police commander had
previously worked before being posted to nearby Mureaux.
The police officer who died was named in the French media as
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, described as an assistant chief in the
nearby district of Les Mureaux. He was reported to have been wearing
civilian clothes at the time.
Magnanville is about 35 miles north-west of Paris.
"The toll is a heavy one," interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry
Brandet told reporters at the scene. "This commander, this police
officer was killed by the individual … [and] we discovered the body of
a woman. The assailant, the criminal, was killed. Thankfully a little
boy was saved. He was in the house. He's safe and sound. He was saved
by police officers."
Islamic State appeared to claim the attack through its news agency.
The Site Intelligence Group, a US-based monitor, cited the Isis-linked
Amaq News Agency as saying on its Telegram channels shortly afer the
attack: "Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police
station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife with blade weapons
near Paris."
A prosecutor said the three-year-old boy was "in shock but unharmed"
and receiving medical attention.
The prime minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted that "a couple of police
officers had been savagely assassinated". He added: "Refuse fear,
fight terrorism."
The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, called it "an abject
terrorist attack" and expressed his "infinite sadness" at the
killings.
He said in a statement: "The attacker was neutralised by Raid forces,
who showed great composure and great professionalism and who saved the
couple's little boy. The inquiry opened by the justice authorities
will establish the precise circumstances of this tragedy."
The killing in France came a day after a gunman claiming to be acting
in the name of Isis shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando,
Florida, in the worst mass shooting in US history.
Related:
More on this topicFrance hopes expanded Euro 2016 can shake off
security fears to flourish
At the same time, France is hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament
under tight security. The country is still reeling from the November
2015 jihadist attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.
Police officers were known to be potential target of jihadist
terrorism in France, after two officers were killed in the attacks of
January 2015. One officer, Ahmed Merabet, was shot dead by the French
Kouachi brothers as they fled Charlie Hebdo magazine after opening
fire on an editorial meeting.
Another police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, was shot in the street
the following day by their accomplice Amedy Coulibaly before he later
took hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket, killing four.
Earlier this year police shot dead a man who tried to enter a Paris
police station brandishing a butcher's knife and wearing a fake
suicide vest on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Just after the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in January
2015, police raided a terror cell in Verviers in Belgium to foil an
imminent attack in which prosecutors said jihadists aimed "to kill
police officers on public roads and in police offices,"
The Verviers terror cell was part of a broader French-Belgian jihadist
network with links to those involved in the later terror attacks in
Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March.
But targeting police officers at their home, as happened in the
Magnanville attack, would be a new type of attack.
In 2014, French police shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked
three officers in a police station while shouting "Allahu Akbar". The
man, known to police for petty crime, wounded one officer's face at
the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central
city of Tours and injured two others before he was killed. The
investigation was led by anti-terror police.
In 2012, the radicalised 23-year-old panel-beater Mohammed Merah, who
went on to kill three schoolchildren and a rabbi outside a Jewish
school in Toulouse, began his killing spree by targetting soldiers.
He first killed an off-duty paratrooper who had arranged to meet
someone about selling a motorbike, then killed two uniformed soldiers
in Montauban, injuring a third. Days later, he targeted the Jewish
school before being killed after a 32-hour siege at his flat.
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Kasule. But who are the victims?
Bobby
France French police chief and partner killed in stabbing claimed by
Isis Convicted terrorist stabs commander to death outside home in
Manganville before taking partner and son hostage
French police commander and spouse killed in possible Isis-linked
attack – video
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Tuesday 14 June 2016 07.55 BST Last modified on Tuesday 14 June 2016 09.33
President François Hollande has convened crisis talks after a man
convicted for terrorist offences and claiming allegiance to the
Islamic State stabbed a French police commander to death in front of
his house outside Paris, then killed his partner who also worked for
the police.
The 42-year-old police commander was in plain clothes when he was
stabbed to death as he arrived home at around 8.30pm on Monday night
in a quiet residential area of Magnanville, north-west of Paris.
The attacker then entered the house and held hostage the commander's
partner – who also worked in the local police administration – and the
couple's three-year-old son.
Hollande called it "incontestably a terrorist act" and said France was
facing a terror threat "of a very large scale".
Elite police squads rushed to the scene, sealed off the neighbourhood,
cut electricity and negotiated with the attacker who told them he was
a soldier for Isis and had sworn allegiance to the group.
Shortly afterwards loud detonations were heard as police stormed the
house and killed the assailant. They found the woman dead and rescued
the couple's son alive.
The attacker was identified by Le Monde and RMC radio as Larossi
Abballa, 25, who was known to police for radicalism and already had a
terrorism conviction.
He had been sentenced to three years in prison, six months suspended,
in 2013 for "criminal association in view to preparing terrorist
attacks" over his role in a recruitment network of jihadists linked to
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
French media reported Abballa had recently been under close police
surveillance as he had featured in the entourage of another man who
had left for Syria.
The French journalist and jihadhist expert, David Thomson, reported
that Abballa had used Facebook live to post images of the attack — a
video which is being examined by police. Thomson reported that while
the attacker filmed himself, the three-year-old boy was behind him on
the sofa. The attacker said "I don't know yet what I'm going to do
with him."
The attacker lived alone in nearby Mantes-la-Jolie, where the woman
worked in the local police station and where the police commander had
previously worked before being posted to nearby Mureaux.
The police officer who died was named in the French media as
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, described as an assistant chief in the
nearby district of Les Mureaux. He was reported to have been wearing
civilian clothes at the time.
Magnanville is about 35 miles north-west of Paris.
"The toll is a heavy one," interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry
Brandet told reporters at the scene. "This commander, this police
officer was killed by the individual … [and] we discovered the body of
a woman. The assailant, the criminal, was killed. Thankfully a little
boy was saved. He was in the house. He's safe and sound. He was saved
by police officers."
Islamic State appeared to claim the attack through its news agency.
The Site Intelligence Group, a US-based monitor, cited the Isis-linked
Amaq News Agency as saying on its Telegram channels shortly afer the
attack: "Islamic State fighter kills deputy chief of the police
station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife with blade weapons
near Paris."
A prosecutor said the three-year-old boy was "in shock but unharmed"
and receiving medical attention.
The prime minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted that "a couple of police
officers had been savagely assassinated". He added: "Refuse fear,
fight terrorism."
The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, called it "an abject
terrorist attack" and expressed his "infinite sadness" at the
killings.
He said in a statement: "The attacker was neutralised by Raid forces,
who showed great composure and great professionalism and who saved the
couple's little boy. The inquiry opened by the justice authorities
will establish the precise circumstances of this tragedy."
The killing in France came a day after a gunman claiming to be acting
in the name of Isis shot dead 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando,
Florida, in the worst mass shooting in US history.
Related:
More on this topicFrance hopes expanded Euro 2016 can shake off
security fears to flourish
At the same time, France is hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament
under tight security. The country is still reeling from the November
2015 jihadist attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.
Police officers were known to be potential target of jihadist
terrorism in France, after two officers were killed in the attacks of
January 2015. One officer, Ahmed Merabet, was shot dead by the French
Kouachi brothers as they fled Charlie Hebdo magazine after opening
fire on an editorial meeting.
Another police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, was shot in the street
the following day by their accomplice Amedy Coulibaly before he later
took hostages at a Paris kosher supermarket, killing four.
Earlier this year police shot dead a man who tried to enter a Paris
police station brandishing a butcher's knife and wearing a fake
suicide vest on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Just after the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in January
2015, police raided a terror cell in Verviers in Belgium to foil an
imminent attack in which prosecutors said jihadists aimed "to kill
police officers on public roads and in police offices,"
The Verviers terror cell was part of a broader French-Belgian jihadist
network with links to those involved in the later terror attacks in
Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March.
But targeting police officers at their home, as happened in the
Magnanville attack, would be a new type of attack.
In 2014, French police shot dead a knife-wielding man who attacked
three officers in a police station while shouting "Allahu Akbar". The
man, known to police for petty crime, wounded one officer's face at
the entrance to the police station in Joue-les-Tours near the central
city of Tours and injured two others before he was killed. The
investigation was led by anti-terror police.
In 2012, the radicalised 23-year-old panel-beater Mohammed Merah, who
went on to kill three schoolchildren and a rabbi outside a Jewish
school in Toulouse, began his killing spree by targetting soldiers.
He first killed an off-duty paratrooper who had arranged to meet
someone about selling a motorbike, then killed two uniformed soldiers
in Montauban, injuring a third. Days later, he targeted the Jewish
school before being killed after a 32-hour siege at his flat.
--
Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
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