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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Yassine Salhi

French police escort Yassin Salhi, a man suspected of decapitating his boss in an attack on a gas factory, as they leave his flat in Saint-Priest on June 28, 2015. (AFP/ PHILIPPE DESMAZES)
June 29, 2015, 12:47 am
French beheading selfie ‘sent to Syria’
Yassine Salhi confesses to decapitating boss in attack on US-owned gas factory Friday, sending photo with severed head via WhatsApp
By AFP and ToI Staff
Investigating police officers work outside the plant where a terrorist attack took place, Friday, June 26, 2015 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
June 28, 2015, 1:41 pm
French attack suspect confesses as gruesome selfie emerges
Yassine Salhi, 35, investigated over motive for apparent suicidal bid to destroy US-owned Air Products factory
By AFP
A suspect (head covered) in the attack on the Air Products gas factory is taken away in a car of the French criminal investigation police after a search at the suspect's home in the Moines neighborhood of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, central eastern France, on June 26, 2015. (AFP/JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK)
June 28, 2015, 1:57 am
Police grill France suspect as decapitation selfie emerges
Yassine Salhi begins talking to investigators after apparently beheading boss Herve Cornara at a factory near Lyon, sending picture of severed head via WhatsApp
By AFP and AP
Police officers guard the road leading to a plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Saturday, June 27, 2015, where an attack took place yesterday June 26. (AP/Michel Euler)
June 27, 2015, 8:08 pm
French beheading suspect sent ‘selfie’ with severed head
Yassine Salhi apparently uploaded the photo via WhatsApp; police say he is refusing to speak to investigators
By AFP, AP and ToI Staff
Police officers guard a road leading to a plant which was attacked on Friday in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Saturday, June 27, 2015. (AP/Michel Euler)
June 27, 2015, 6:35 pm
In custody, suspect in French terror attack keeps mum
Yassine Salhi refuses to speak to police about gas factory attack, beheading; hundreds honor slain businessman
By PHILIPPE SOTTO
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, February 13, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/Charly Triballeau)
June 27, 2015, 7:48 am
French PM warns further attacks are coming
Valls says more terrorism in France not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’; police interrogate suspected killer
By Pauline Talagrand and Daniel Abelous
Injured people are treated near the area where a terror attack took place in Sousse, Tunisia, Friday June 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
June 26, 2015, 11:52 pm
Dozens killed on day of terror in Tunisia, Kuwait and France
Gunmen, bombers strike on three continents; Cameron laments ‘poisonous radicalism’; Netanyahu urges world struggle against ‘dark forces of Islamic extremism’
By ToI Staff and AP
Riot police officers block the area where an attack took place, Friday, June 26, 2015 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)
June 26, 2015, 9:55 pm
French beheading suspect was allegedly involved in 2012 attack on Jewish teen
Yassine Salhi accosted youth on train three years ago; prosecutors say no indication he had an accomplice in Friday attack at gas factory
By ToI Staff and AFP
Emergency services outside a factory where a man was beheaded in a terrorist attack, in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France, Friday, June 26, 2015. (I Tele via AP)
June 26, 2015, 7:22 pm
French Islamist beheads his boss, tries to blow up factory
Severed head left hanging at gas firm’s entrance, along with Arabic flags; killer in custody; France raises terror alert
By AP, AFP and ToI Staff
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