Convicted terrorist records murder of French cop, girlfriend
A convicted French terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS fatally stabbed an off-duty police officer and the cop’s girlfriend in the couple’s home Monday night, while live-streaming part of the savage attack on Facebook, officials said.
The killer, French national Larossi Abballa, kept a list filled with other targets — including rappers, journalists, public officials and other police officers, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Tuesday.
But he ended up attacking Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, a police commander in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
Abballa stabbed Salvaing outside the officer’s home, then stormed the house and took the cop’s girlfriend and 3-year-old son hostage, officials said.
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During a three-hour standoff, Abballa pledged allegiance to ISIS and murdered the girlfriend, officials said. Police eventually shot and killed him.
The boy was not harmed.
Abballa streamed 12 minutes of the slaughter on Facebook Live, but officials have not said what the gruesome footage showed.
The 25-year-old terrorist was sentenced in 2013 to three years in prison for recruiting jihadist fighters in Pakistan, officials said. It is unclear how much time he served.
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French President Francois Hollande called the convicted terrorist a “coward” after the killings.
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Molins said Abballa was responding to calls from ISIS to “kill non-believers where they live,” though it is unknown why he targeted the police commander.
French President Francois Hollande called the carnage “incontestably a terrorist attack,” committed by a “coward.” He said France faces “very large scale” threats of more violence.
Amaq, the ISIS news agency, said Abballa had connections to ISIS, but the terrorist group did not claim responsibility for the attack.
Abballa’s Facebook featured posts criticizing Israel and Saudi Arabia, and mocking the European Championship logo with occult symbols.
In his final public post, 18 hours before the murders, he wrote: “Some will say we see evil everywhere!”
Three people —aged 27, 29 and 44 —were arrested Tuesday as part of the probe into the slaughter, officials said. Their possible involvement was not revealed. Government officials said more than 100 people have been arrested in France as potential terror threats so far in 2016.
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