{"id":10718,"date":"2016-06-14T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2016-06-14T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T10:08:20","slug":"french-president-killing-police-officer-partner-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"French President: Killing of police officer, partner a terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
Larossi Abballa is the attacker who killed a French policeman and his partner in Magnanville, France, on Monday, a source close to the investigation told CNN Terrorism Analyst Paul Cruickshank. The source also said Abballa broadcast the attack live on Facebook as he carried it out.<\/div>\n
The killing of a French police officer and his partner Monday night by a man claiming allegiance to ISIS was “unquestionably a terrorist act,” French President Francois Hollande.<\/div>\n
The attacker stabbed the officer to death before taking the partner and their 3-year-old son hostage in a house in Magnanville, 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Paris.<\/div>\n
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The attacker was then killed by a SWAT team after a standoff with police, officials said.<\/div>\n
Though the ISIS-linked A’maq agency reported the killing was done by an “Islamic State fighter,” there has been no direct claim of responsibility.<\/div>\n
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A French special forces vehicle leaves the scene of the incident.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A woman’s body was found in the house, according to Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesperson for the French Interior Ministry.<\/div>\n
The SWAT team was able to rescue the son, the French Interior Ministry added.<\/div>\n
French government spokesman Stephane LeFoll said the case has been turned over to the terrorism prosecutor.<\/div>\n
The killings come as France is on high alert for terrorist attacks as it hosts the Euro 2016 football championship, Europe’s centerpiece football event.<\/div>\n
U.S. and British officials have both warned their citizens about the potential terror risks of attending.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larossi Abballa is the attacker who killed a French policeman and his partner in Magnanville, France, on Monday, a source close to the investigation told CNN Terrorism Analyst Paul Cruickshank. The source also said Abballa broadcast the attack live on Facebook as he carried it out. The killing of a French police officer and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}