French police officer and partner murdered in 'odious terrorist attack'
Convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa fatally stabbed couple in front of their son and streamed video of attack on Facebook.

The French government has denounced an “abject act of terrorism” after a man with a previous terrorist conviction carried out a gruesome knife murder of a police commander and his partner at their home outside Paris in the presence of their three-year-old son.

Larossi Abballa, a Frenchman previously convicted of taking part in a jihadi recruitment network and claiming allegiance to Islamic State, streamed a video of the fatal attack on Facebook Live.

Police negotiators attempted to talk to Abballa, who said he was a soldier for Isis and had sworn allegiance to the group. He said that he had deliberately targeted police.

The negotiations failed when Abballa first told police to stay away from the door then cut off communications. Shortly before midnight, loud explosions and shots were heard as police stormed the house and killed the attacker. They found Schneider dead from a knife-wound to the neck, and rescued the couple’s son alive but in a state of shock.

The French state prosecutor, François Molins, said that during the negotiations with police, Abballa had said he was a practising Muslim and observing Ramadan and that he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, three weeks ago. Abballa said he had responded to an Isis appeal to “kill non-believers at home with their families”. He said he had known that his target was a police officer.

After the raid, police found inside the house a target list including “rappers, journalists, police officers and public personalities”. They also found three phones and three knives including a bloody knife placed on the table-top. In Abballa’s car outside they found a Qur’an, a white djellaba garment and a book called “Authentic Belief”.

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Molins said that at 8.52pm, Abballa had posted a 12-minute video on his Facebook page as well as two tweets in which he claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the video, which was seen by AFP, Abballa called on supporters to attack to attack police, journalists, public figures, prison guards and rappers and to “turn the Euro [football tournament] into a graveyard.” The video was later removed from Facebook.

David Thomson, a French journalist specialising in French jihadism, tweeted that the attacker had posted images of the attack and filmed himself at the scene inside the house with the three-year-old boy behind him on the sofa. Abballa said, with the boy seated behind him: “I don’t know yet what I’m going to do with him.”

Thomson reported that the Facebook account had been deactivated and the video was being examined by police.

Nice lorry attack: Five suspected accomplices charged 22 July 2016
People walk past flowers left in tribute at a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack near the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.
Flowers have been left along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

Five suspects have appeared in court in France charged with terror offences in relation to the Nice lorry attack in which 84 people were killed.
The four men and one woman, aged between 22 and 40, are accused of helping prepare the terror attack, claimed by so-called Islamic State.

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26/07/2016
Another day, another horror apparently perpetrated by Islamists in the Western world – this time attacking Christians at worship. Once again, France reels.

The Daily Mail reports, An 86-year-old priest has been ‘beheaded’ by two ‘Islamic’ knifemen who cut his throat after bursting into a French church and taking nuns and worshippers hostage before being shot dead by police.

Five people including the priest, two nuns and two parishioners were held by assailants who raided the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy at 9am.

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