Terrorist attack in Magnanville

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In the terrorist attack in Magnanville in the French Yvelines department on June 13, 2016, two police officers were murdered and the assassin Larossi Abballa was killed.

Sequence of events

Abballa stabbed the deputy chief of the Les Mureaux criminal investigation department in front of his house in Magnanville with a knife on the evening of June 13th, after shouting "Allah is great" in Arabic, according to eyewitnesses . Abballa then took his wife, a secretary in the Mantes-la-Jolie police station , and their three-year-old son hostage and holed up in the house. During the hostage-taking, Abballa confessed to the Islamic State (IS). The raid stormed the house that night, shot Abballa and found the woman dead and the son alive. Abballa had cut the woman's throat and published photos and videos of his deed on Facebook .

Perpetrator

Abballa was 25 years old at the time of the crime. On May 14, 2011, he was arrested on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist cell. In 2013 he was on trial for allegedly helping to smuggle radicalized young French people into jihad in Pakistan . Abballa was therefore sentenced in September 2013 to three years in prison, including six months on probation. The investigative authorities assumed that the instigator of the attack was Rachid Kassim .

Reactions

France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described the attack as a "repulsive act of terrorism". The regional council chairman of the Île-de-France region , Valérie Pécresse , called for the aggravated emergency . "The French must finally be protected from the threat of terrorism," she said.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c One of 8250 Islamists . Faz.net, June 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Three dead in Magnanville near Paris: the French government calls the murder of the police an "act of terrorism" - Tagesspiegel
  3. ↑ BFMTV: Magnanville: qui était Larossi Abballa, le meurtrier des deux policiers? In: BFMTV. Retrieved June 15, 2016 (fr-fr).
  4. ↑ a b hostage-taking in Paris - perpetrator confesses to IS - faz.de
  5. ↑ Police are investigating 15-year-old terror suspects . In: The time . 17th September 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 9 ″  N , 1 ° 41 ′ 24 ″  E