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.
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, a police commander had returned to his home in the quiet residential area of Magnanville 50km (30 miles) west of Paris at 8:30pm on Monday night in plain clothes, when Larossi Abballa, a French man previously convicted of taking part in a jihadi recruitment network and claiming allegiance to Islamic State, lay in wait for him hidden behind a gate. Continue reading “French police officer and wife murdered in ‘odious terrorist attack’”