Terrorist Stabs French Police Chief to Death; Livestreams on Facebook

A terrorist stabbed a French police chief to death outside of his home and tortured the Chief’s wife in front of their toddler son. The terrorist livestreamed the attack on Facebook.

Fox News Reports:

The shocking attack in Magnanville, 35 miles north of Paris, ended after a three-hour standoff, when French commandoes stormed the home, rescuing the boy and killing Larossi Abballa, 25. Before the raid, Abballa, a French national with a prior terrorism conviction and ties to jihadists based in Pakistan, made a horrific appeal to his Facebook followers, writing, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with the boy.”

Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, was not in uniform when he was ambushed and stabbed repeatedly in the stomach outside of his home shortly before 8.30 p.m. on Monday. His wife, a 36-year-old secretary at a local police station, was killed with a knife inside the residence while the couple’s 3-year-old son hid behind a couch. The French interior minister called the slaughter “an abject terrorist act.”

Three men believed to have close ties to Abbala were brought in for questioning by French police shortly after the attack, officials said.

Word that Abbala had filmed a 12-minute video of the attack and posted it on Facebook Live shocked the nation Tuesday morning. Abbala also tweeted twice during the killings.

“The toll is a heavy one,” Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene, his voice heavy with emotion.

Authorities found a Koran, headscarf and two other books in a vehicle used by Abbala, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said, and a list of other targets — including police officers and journalists — was found at Abbala’s home.

But Abbala had also been the subject of a more recent terror investigation and was allegedly on a government list of individuals seen as a danger to the state, the BBC reported.

French police had recently wiretapped Abbala, but had not found anything incriminating by the time of the attack, officials said.

Abbala pledged allegiance to ISIS three weeks ago and reportedly did during the filmed portion of the attack, too. The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency later cited an unnamed “source” as saying an ISIS fighter carried out the attack and the jihadist group claimed responsibility for the assault on its Albayan Radio, Reuters reported.

Molins said Abballa’s attack was a response to ISIS calls to “kill non-believers where they live” during Ramadan.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the murdered Chief.

This new series of terrorist attacks may just be the tip of the iceberg. Stay vigilant.

We normally like to include photos of the victims rather than the scum who killed them, but no photos are available at this time. A placeholder photo was used instead.