YESTERDAY the French decided to light up the Eiffel Tower in rainbow colours, in solidarity with the American victims of terrorism in Orlando. But before the lights were even switched on, terrorism struck again on French soil. Last night two police employees—one an officer, the other an official—were knifed to death in their home west of Paris by a man identified by the French police as Larossi Abballa. President François Hollande called it “unquestionably” an act of terrorism. Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility. After two bloody terrorist attacks last year, France is struggling to consider such events the new normal.
The latest attack took place in Magnanville, a residential suburb some 50 kilometres (32 miles) west of Paris. According to the French prosecutor, Abballa stabbed the police officer to death before taking hostage his partner, an official at a nearby police station, along with their three-year-old son. After an elite police squad stormed their home in a burst of gunfire, shooting Abballa dead, they discovered that he had cut the woman’s throat. The child survived. Three other suspects thought to be in his circle were...Continue reading
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