An attacker allegedly affiliated with the Daesh terrorist group has killed a police chief and his wife at their home located near Paris before being gunned down by the police.
Jean-Baptiste Salvaing succumbed to multiple stab wounds inflicted by an assailant who reportedly shouted Takfiri slogans during the attack, which took place in the early hours of Tuesday.
After killing the attacker, police found the body of the victim’s wife and rescued his three-year-old son from their home in the Paris suburb of Magnanville.
The attacker is reported to have claimed allegiance to the Takfiri terrorist group while negotiating with the police before being killed.
According to the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, the Daesh-linked Amaq News Agency reported the murder on its Telegram channels, posting, “Daesh fighter kills deputy chief of the police station in the city of Les Mureaux and his wife with blade weapons near #Paris."
Following the incident, French President Francois Hollande announced that a meeting would be held on Tuesday in which “all light will be shed” on the case.
Expressing “infinite sadness” over the death of the 42-year-old police commander and his wife, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve noted that “The attacker was neutralized by RAID forces, who showed great composure and great professionalism and who saved the couple's little boy.”
The attack took place a day after the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were killed and many others were injured when a gunman, identified as a Daesh sympathizer named Omar Mateen, attacked a gay nightclub.
The policeman and his wife were killed in a frenzied knife attack at their home in a Paris suburb on Monday night by a man who reportedly shouted "Allahu Akhbar".
The couple's three-year-old son was rescued after police stormed the home in the north-western Paris suburb of Magnanville and shot dead the attacker.
He stabbed the 42-year-old officer, who held the rank of "commandant" (commander), nine times in the stomach at his front door. After stabbing the policeman, the attacker forced his way into the home.
It was unclear how the policeman's wife was killed. She worked as a secretary at a local police station.
The child was rescued and was "shocked but unharmed", the interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said.
Five detonations or shots were heard by millions on live television while Mr Brandet spoke to reporters as police stormed the home.
Police sources said the attacker, who has not been named, was a former soldier and a neighbour of the couple."Negotiations were opened but it became clear that they would not succeed and police then entered the home, where they found the body of a woman," Mr Brandet said.
Some sources described the attacker as a neighbour of the policeman, who was in plain clothes when he was killed. Witnesses heard the assailant, described as a teenager or in his early 20s, shout "Allahu Akhbar", Arabic for God is great.
However, the local prosecutor, Vincent Lesclous, said the killing was being treated as a criminal case rather than terrorism.
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