This is horrible. A Muslim man in his 20s just killed his Paris neighbor who was a Police Commandant, stabbing him 9 times at the man’s front door. Then he entered the home and killed his wife. The Muslim man was heard yelling Allahu Akbar while he was stabbing his neighbor.
TELEGRAPH – A hostage situation ensued since there was a child in the residence, and it ended when Police stormed the house and killed the jihadist:
policeman and his wife were killed in a frenzied knife attack at their home in a Paris suburb on Monday night by a man who reportedly shouted “Allahu Akhbar”.
The couple’s three-year-old son was rescued after police stormed the home in the north-western Paris suburb of Magnanville and shot dead the attacker.
He stabbed the 42-year-old officer, who held the rank of “commandant” (commander), nine times in the stomach at his front door. After stabbing the policeman, the attacker forced his way into the home.
It was unclear how the policeman’s wife was killed. She worked as a secretary at a local police station.
The child was rescued and was “shocked but unharmed”, the interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said.
Police sources said the attacker, who has not been named, was a former soldier and a neighbour of the couple.
Some sources described the attacker as a neighbour of the policeman, who was in plain clothes when he was killed. Witnesses heard the assailant, described as a teenager or in his early 20s, shout “Allahu Akhbar”, Arabic for God is great.
However, the local prosecutor, Vincent Lesclous, said the killing was being treated as a criminal case rather than terrorism.
Another attack during Ramadan. Sounds like it could have been a terrorist attack.
Just because it was a neighbor who the killer may or may not have liked doesn’t mean this jihadi didn’t plan to do it. Just because it’s at a home and not a public place or a business doesn’t mean it wasn’t a jihadi’s way to salvation.
I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as terrorism, but maybe that’s just me.