2016 Magnanville stabbing

2016 Magnanville stabbing
Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe
LocationMagnanville, France
Coordinates48°58′07.5″N 1°41′21.1″E / 48.968750°N 1.689194°E / 48.968750; 1.689194
Date13 June 2016 (2016-06-13)
c. 9:00 p.m. CEST (UTC+2)
Attack type
  • Stabbing
  • Hostage taking
Deaths3 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorIslamic State of Iraq and the Levant[1]
AssailantLarossi Abballa
MotiveIslamic extremism[2]

On 13 June 2016, a police officer and his partner, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in Magnanville, France, located about 55 km (34 mi) west of Paris, by a man convicted in 2013 of associating with a group planning terrorist acts. Amaq News Agency, an online outlet said to be sponsored by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),[3] said that a source had claimed that ISIL was behind the attack,[4] an assertion that was later validated.[5]

Prosecutor François Molins said the attacker, Larossi Abballa, appeared to be acting on a recent general order from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to "kill miscreants at home with their families" during the month of Ramadan.[2] On 18 June, prosecutors charged two men, on suspicion that Aballa was not acting alone. One of them was released seven months later, in January 2017, under court-supervised parole.[6]

  1. ^ Attentats en France : ce que l'on sait de Rachid Kassim, membre présumé de l'EI sur france24.com le 12 septembre 2016.
  2. ^ a b "French jihadist police killer 'obeyed Islamic State order'". BBC. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  3. ^ ""Amaq – 24/7 News Agency Run by ISIS", 'from Asharq al-Awsat". Archived from the original on 2016-06-17. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  4. ^ "IS' 'Amaq Reports IS Fighter Behind Stabbing Death of Police Officer in Paris Suburb, SITE Intelligence Group
  5. ^ Kallimachi, Rukmini (8 June 2017). "Syrian Accused of Working for ISIS News Agency Is Arrested in Germany". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  6. ^ Marie Zinck; Sophie Parmentier (13 June 2017). "Policemen killed in Magnanville: one year already". France Inter (in French). Retrieved 4 September 2017. two men were indicted. One, since last January, is under court-supervised parole [«sous contrôle judiciaire»]. The other, Charaf-Din Aberouz, is still in pre-trial detention. The investigation established numerous contacts between him and Larossi Abballa, before the events and the evening of the attack.

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