A police vehicle blocks the road Tuesday morning during an assault in the Paris suburb of Magnanville, France.
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An ISIS-linked news agency claimed Monday that the man who attacked and killed a French police officer and his wife in a Paris suburb was acting on behalf of the Islamic State, though French officials told Le Monde that they were still investigating the motivation for the attack.
The Islamic State's Amaq news agency cited an unnamed "source" as saying that the attacker carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS. The wording was similar to a statement released by Amaq in the wake of the shooting attack in Orlando over the weekend.
French media identified the police officer as 40-year-old commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, while the wife was identified by the office of President François Hollande as an employee of the interior ministry. Her name was not made public.
Salvaing was stabbed to death outside his home in Magnanville, according to an interior minister spokesman who briefed reporters at the scene. The attacker then retreated into the home where he found the wife, and a three-year-old child. When French elite police commandos stormed the house, they found the wife and the attacker dead.
"The toll is a heavy one," Brandet told reporters. "This commander, this police officer was killed by the individual ... (and) we discovered the body of a woman. The assailant, the criminal was killed. Thankfully, a little boy was saved. He was in the house. He's safe and sound. He was saved by police officers."
Although officials said the attacker was killed by police when they stormed the residence, it was unclear how the woman was killed, or what the couple's precise relation was to the rescued child.
French President Francois Hollande condemned the attack as an "odious act."
"Light will be shed on the circumstances of this abominable drama whose investigation, under the authority of justice, will determine the exact nature," Hollande said in a statement.
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