Isis fanatic 'live streamed brutal knife killing of senior police officer and his wife on Facebook'

A grab from the video filmed by convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa
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A terrorist pledging allegiance to Islamic State posted video and photos on Facebook during the brutal knife murder of a senior police commander and his wife at their home in France.

Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, was stabbed repeatedly in the assault in Magnanville, 30 miles north-west of Paris, last night. His wife, named as Jessica S, 36, also died.

Convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa, 25, carried out the attack in front of their three-year-old son before special forces raided the property and killed him, following a three-hour stand-off. The child survived.

The extremist posted film and photos taken during the incident on Facebook, along with justifications for what he had done, according to French security expert David Thomson.

A heavily armoured police vehicle in the French town of Magnanville

Abballa’s Facebook profile— under the name Mohamed Ali — included a 13-minute video of the attack and 15 photos, before it was suspended early this morning.

Mr Thomson, of Paris radio station RFI, said one post referred to the three-year-old. At one point, the child was behind Abballa on the sofa and the terrorist wrote: “I still don’t know what I’m going to do with him.”

A police source claimed the words “Allahu Akhbar” were heard, before Abballa was shot dead.

Today President Francois Hollande warned France faces a terror threat of a “very large scale”.

The country is on its highest state of alert during the Euro 2016 championships behind Abballa on the sofa and the terrorist wrote: “I still don’t know what I’m going to do with him.” A police source claimed the words “Allahu Akhbar” were heard, before Abballa was shot dead.

Larossi Abballa was killed at the scene, according to officials

Today President Francois Hollande warned France faces a terror threat of a “very large scale”.

The country is on its highest state of alert during the Euro 2016 championships and is the first terror atrocity since the Islamic State Paris massacres last November in which 130 people died.

Today the French authorities were facing questions over how Abballa, from the Parisian suburb Mantes-la-Jolie, was left free to carry out the atrocity after he was convicted of a terrorist offence three years ago.

He was jailed for three years in 2013 for “association with criminals preparing terrorist acts” but only spent a few months in prison and is thought to have maintained his links with a group sending jihadists to fight in Afghanistan.

Abballa, who had a history of theft and violent offending, was named in an ongoing anti-terror investigation into a man who had travelled to Syria but was not considered a threat, according to French sources.

Clashes: The unnamed police chief and his wife were killed
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He frequently used social media to call for the murders of police, prison officers and journalists, often by name.

It has also been revealed Abballa had previously claimed allegiance to IS and sources say he did so again while talking to officers during the siege.

The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency cited an unnamed source as saying an IS fighter carried out the attack, but the extremist jihadist group has not officially claimed responsibility.

Mr Hollande said the killings were an “incontestably a terrorist act” adding: “France is not the only country concerned (by the terrorist threat), as we have seen, again, in the United States, in Orlando.”

France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said more than 100 people seen as potential threats have been arrested in France this year, including in recent weeks.

The police couple’s three-year-old son was said to be “extremely shocked but otherwise unharmed,” according to a spokesman for the Paris Interior Ministry.

The bloodbath in France started soon after 9pm when Abballa launched the onslaught and attacked the police captain in the street outside his house.

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