Paris Policeman And Wife Killed In Daesh-Linked Attack
MEP: A French police commander and his partner were killed by a gunman allegedly affiliated with Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group in front of his house outside Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42 succumbed to multiple stab wounds inflicted by an assailant who reportedly shouted Takfiri slogans during the attack, which took place in the early hours of Tuesday.
Explosions were heard towards midnight as elite Raid commandos entered the building, where they killed the attacker who had taken the officer’s family hostage.
The killer has been named as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, who had already been sentenced to three years in prison in 2013 for “links to criminals preparing terror attacks”.
According to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, the Daesh-linked Amaq News Agency reported the murder on its Telegram channels, posting, “Daesh fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife with blade weapons near #Paris.”
Witnesses told investigators the man may have shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest) as he stabbed the policeman repeatedly.
