Yesterday we reported on a Muslim terrorist attack in Paris that claimed the lives of two police officials in their home.
The Muslim terrorist, who was the neighbor of the victims, stabbed the husband and father, a police commandant, in the stomach nine times at his front door. He was heard yelling Allahu Akbar by the neighbors. Then he went into the home and apparently tortured and then killed the wife, another police officer.
The 3-year-old child was rescued by the SWAT team and the Muslim terrorist was killed after a standoff.
Now we are learning that the man, Larossi Abballa, pledged allegiance to ISIS and was doing this in the name of a senior ISIS leader who called for attacks during Ramadan.
We are also learning that this jihadi live streamed the murderous attack onto Facebook.
Here’s more:
CNN – The man who killed a French police commander and a woman broadcast the aftermath of the attack live on Facebook Monday night, a French source close to the investigation told CNN.
Larossi Abballa, a local man with a previous conviction for jihad recruitment activities, carried out the deadly knife attack in Magnanville, northwest of Paris, the source told CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank.
During the Facebook broadcast, the child could be seen on a sofa behind Abballa, who told viewers he was not sure what to do with the boy. Some time later, French commandos stormed the house and killed Abballa, the source said.
The SWAT team was able to rescue the son, the French Interior Ministry said.
Two people described as part of Abballa’s inner circle have been taken into police custody for questioning, a French police source tells CNN.
In the video, Abballa claimed he was responding to a call from senior ISIS leader Abu Mohammed al-Adnani for the terror group’s followers in Europe and the United States to carry out attacks during Ramadan.
The ISIS-linked A’maq agency reported that the killing was done by an “Islamic State fighter,” although there was no direct claim of responsibility.
Abballa was also known as a jihadi to French officials:
Abballa had been convicted in 2013 for involvement in a jihadist recruitment network that sent fighters to Pakistan, the source told CNN.
French security services also suspected him of having links to a recruitment network for jihadists in Syria, the source said.
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Early reports yesterday stated that the investigators were not treating this as an act of terrorism.
But the French President himself declared it was absolutely a terrorist attack:
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said that the couple had been “assassinated by a terrorist.”
“It was undeniably an act of terrorism, both because the perpetrator — who was taken out at the scene, thanks to the quick reaction of the security forces — wanted it to be recognized as an act of terrorism, and the organization he had pledged his allegiance to also claimed the attack.”