Mutual respect and tolerance?
French knifeman who wanted to ‘hunt infidels’ for Islamic State uploaded video from inside victim’s home15 June 2016
SCMP article
A knife-wielding Islamist militant suspected of killing a French police commander and his partner at their home before being killed by police commandos had vowed five years ago to “hunt infidels” and been trained to slit the throats of rabbits.
Larossi Abballa, 25, a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an 12-minute video uploaded inside the victims’ home on Monday evening hours before he was shot, had been under police surveillance for years.
Policeman Jean-Baptiste Salvaing was stabbed to death outside his home by Abballa, who holed up inside the house with the officer’s partner, Jessica Schneider, before stabbing her to death in front of the couple’s toddler son.
Explaining his motives in a mixture of French and Arabic, he told the French authorities: “You closed our doors to ‘hijra’ (emigration to Muslim countries), so we are opening the gates of ’jihad’ on your territory.”