Hollande leads silence for victims of police killer

Remembered: Jean-Baptiste Salvaing (L) and Jessica Schneider
Reuters
Rashid Razaq15 June 2016

President François Hollande led a minute’s silence today in memory of a senior police commander and his partner killed by a terrorist who pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Larossi Abballa stabbed Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, repeatedly in the throat and stomach outside his home in Magnanville, north-west of Paris, on Monday.

Abballa then took his partner, named by French media as Jessica Schneider, hostage in the house along with the couple’s three-year-old son. Her body was found when police stormed the property, but the child survived.

Abballa, 25, posted film taken during the attack on Facebook Live before being killed in the raid.

Anti-terror investigators were today questioning three suspects as they try to determine whether he was part of a wider network. In 2013 the Islamist extremist had been jailed for association with criminals preparing terrorist acts.

A memorial ceremony for Mr Salvaing and Ms Schneider, 36, was taking place in Magnanville today, while Mr Hollande was leading a silence at the interior ministry.

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