A picture taken on June 15, 2016 at the Ministry of Interior in Paris during a memorial ceremony shows a photograph of French policeman Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider, who were killed on June 13 by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)
PARIS — Two men linked to a jihadist who killed a French police officer and his partner were charged and detained by an anti-terror court Saturday.
Saad Rajraji, 27, and Charaf-Din Aberouz, 29, were charged with having links to a terrorist group, but were not found to have any connection to the IS-inspired murder of the police couple carried out by Larossi Abballa last Monday.
The two men had been convicted along with Abballa in September 2013 as part of a network to send jihadists to Pakistan, judicial sources close to the investigation said.
A third man arrested in the case was released without charge.
Abballa, a convicted radical who had been under surveillance, murdered the police officer and his partner outside their home and then was killed himself in a police raid.
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Police officers carry the coffins of the two police officials killed by an extremist claiming allegiance to IS, during a ceremony, Friday June 17, 2016 in Versailles, near Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
Before he was killed, Abballa posted a live Facebook video of himself in which he admitted the murders and urged fellow jihadists to carry out more bloodshed.
Monday’s assault in a small town northwest of Paris was the first deadly strike in France since the coordinated attacks in the capital by an Islamic State cell in November, which killed 130 people.
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