DHAKA: The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was acting on an order from so-called Islamic State (IS) to “kill infidels”.
Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the officials said.
A police commander and his partner were stabbed to death at their home. Their three-year-old son survived.
IS has put out a video showing Abballa confessing to the killings.
The 11-minute video, on the IS news agency Amaq, apparently shows him in the home of the couple before police stormed in.
In it Abballa, 25, urged Muslims in France to target police officers, prison guards, journalists, politicians and mayors. He named several prominent French journalists.
The video is apparently the same as one that Abballa posted on Facebook Live, hours before police killed him, in which he swore allegiance to IS.
Abballa’s crime was “a terrorist act”, President Francois Hollande said, and France still faced “a significant threat”.
The attack happened in Magnanville, about 55km (35 miles) north-west of the French capital.
BDST: 1232 HRS, JUN 15, 2016
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