2016 Magnanville stabbing | |
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Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | Magnanville, France |
Coordinates | 48°58′07.5″N 1°41′21.1″E / 48.968750°N 1.689194°E |
Date | 13 June 2016 c. 9:00 p.m. CEST (UTC+2) |
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Deaths | 3 (including the perpetrator) |
Perpetrator | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant[1] |
Assailant | Larossi Abballa |
Motive | Islamic 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]
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.