Chilling warning from ISIS killer on Facebook live stream sent straight from his murdered victims’ home
Larossi Abballa pledged allegiance to the late ISIS leader after warning of mass murder and carnage at the football tournament
AN IS fanatic knifed to death a French police commander and his wife — then filmed himself amid the carnage in their home warning of an atrocity at Euro 2016.
Larossi Abballa, 25, repeatedly stabbed Jean-Baptiste Salvaing after following him home before forcing his way into his house to murder wife Jessica in front of their three-year-old son.
Abballa then put sickening images of the killings on Facebook Live along with footage of himself saying: “We’re keeping another surprise for the Euros but I won’t say anything more.
“We will come and find you the way I have found this policeman at his house.”
Abballa was shot dead while screaming “Allahu Akbar!” by police officers who stormed the house in Magnanville, near Paris, and saved the three-year-old.
Abballa, 25, knifed 42-year-old Jean-Baptiste nine times outside his home on Monday evening before forcing his way inside and cutting 36-year-old Jessica’s throat.
He telephoned police to pledge allegiance to ISIS, then posted harrowing pictures and videos of the murders along with an image of their son cowering behind a sofa.
We’re keeping another surprise for the Euros but I won’t say anything more. We will come and find you the way I have found this policeman at his house
Larossi Abballa
A message beside the picture read: “I still don’t know what I’m going to do with him.”
As officers prepared to attack the house Abballa filmed himself saying: “I just killed a police officer and his wife. The police are currently surrounding me.”
He also sent a personal message to France’s President Hollande, saying: “You are ruthless but we are also heartless. I was ruthless just now towards this policeman and his wife.”
Jean-Baptiste is said to have spotted Allabba stalking him and begged neighbours to raise the alarm as he tried to flee.
Neighbour Monique Fohrer said: “It was like something out of a war zone. All we can think of is the horror for that poor boy.”
Magnanville mayor Michel Lebouc said: “Why did this nightmare come to our little town?
“I saw the little boy when a fireman brought him out of the house and he was traumatised.
“Words cannot express my feelings about what has happened.”
Abballa put a 13-minute video of the murders and 15 photos online.
Using his Facebook profile, under the name Mohamed Ali, he sent the video to 100 contacts.
In it he predicted: “The Euros will be a graveyard.” He also said he was acting on the orders of ISIS commanders to kill people during the Holy Islamic month of Ramadan, which began on June 6.
French-born Abballa was a known Islamic radical jailed for three years in 2013 for “assisting criminals connected with a terrorist act”.
He served only a fraction of the sentence thanks to remission. On release Abballa was put on France’s “S-list” of individuals seen as a danger to state security — and was reportedly linked to a Syrian jihadi group.
But he somehow slipped off the radar despite the state of emergency since November’s Paris attacks and the fears of an outrage during Euro 2016.
Sources say French intelligence did not see him as an “imminent threat” and stopped tapping his phone.
Abballa grew up in the Paris commuter town of Mantes-la-Jolie, which is just four miles from Magnanville. He ran a fast food delivery service in a slum area known as The Ghetto.
It is home to 21,000 impoverished immigrants and is a breeding ground for Islamic fanatics.
It is unclear whether Jean-Baptiste knew Abballa.
The policeman had worked in Mantes-la-Jolie as an investigator and Abballa was frequently in trouble from his teenage years onwards.
A source said: “It is probable the killer knew Salvaing and had deliberately targeted him.
“It would appear the policeman was followed home. The attack on his family was an extra act of revenge. This was not just an attack on a policeman — it was an attack on the French state.”
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Abballa frequently used social media to call for the murders of police, prison officers and journalists. Officers who searched his home said they found a hit list of six public figures, including French rappers.
The policeman’s son was yesterday said to be “extremely shocked but otherwise unharmed”.
ISIS yesterday issued a statement saying the killings were carried out by an “Islamic State fighter.”
Police in Paris yesterday said three associates of Abballa, aged 27, 29 and 44, were being questioned.
'Odious act'
FRANCE’S President Francois Hollande held a crisis meeting yesterday and declared the murders were “unquestionably” an act of terrorism.
He condemned the “odious act” and said “all light will be shed” on the case.
Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve called it “an abject terrorist attack” and expressed his “infinite sadness”.
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