Police commander and partner killed in possible Isis-linked terror attack outside Paris

The Guardian ^ | 14 June 2016 | Angelique Chrisaf

[Cronos]

Islamic State claims responsibility after officer was stabbed to death outside home in Manganville before woman and boy were taken hostage inside

President François Hollande has convened crisis talks after a man claiming allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a French police commander to death in front of his house outside Paris, then killed his partner who also worked for the police.

The 42-year-old police commander was in plain clothes when he was stabbed to death as he arrived home at around 8.30pm on Monday night in a quiet residential area of Magnanville, north-west of Paris.

The attacker then entered the house and held hostage the commander’s partner – who also worked in the local police administration – and the couple’s three-year-old son.

Elite police squads rushed to the scene, sealed off the neighbourhood, cut electricity and negotiated with the attacker who told them he was a soldier for Isis and had sworn allegiance to the group.

Shortly afterwards loud detonations were heard as police stormed the house and killed the assailant. They found the woman dead and rescued the couple’s son alive.

The French attacker was identified by Le Monde and RMC radio as Larossi Abballa, 25, who was known to police for radicalism and already had a terrorism conviction.

...“The toll is a heavy one,” interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene. “This commander, this police officer was killed by the individual … [and] we discovered the body of a woman. The assailant, the criminal, was killed. Thankfully a little boy was saved. He was in the house. He’s safe and sound. He was saved by police officers.”

..A prosecutor said the three-year-old boy was “in shock but unharmed” and receiving medical attention.

[BradyLS]

That pesky “JV team” again.

And they went for someone in power. Not some collection of proles in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[kearnyirish2]

At this point the European police/armies seem to understand very clearly that they are now living in Muslim countries - they (the law enforcement) are now an occupying force.