A Frenchman once convicted of recruiting jihadi fighters stabbed a police commander to death outside his suburban Paris home, recording the attack and posting it on Facebook Live, French officials say. The commander’s partner and the attacker were found dead inside the home after a three-hour standoff with police.
The couple’s 3-year-old was in the house in Magnanville, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) west of Paris, but was unharmed. A police official says that at one point in the video the attacker puzzled over what to do with the child.
The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency cites an unnamed source as saying an IS fighter carried out the attack late last night. While the extremist group has not officially claimed responsibility, French President Francois Hollande says this was “incontestably a terrorist act” and that France faces a threat “of a very large scale.”
Two people close to the attacker, identified as 25-year-old Larossi Abbala, are in custody, authorities say, without offering any further details about them.
French police officers block the road leading to a crime scene the day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a senior police officer to death Monday evening outside his home in Magnanville, west of Paris, on June 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
— AP
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