Alwaght- A man alleged to be connected to ISIS Terrorists overnight has stabbed a police commander and his wife to death at his home north-west of Paris on Monday night.
The 42-year-old police commander in plain clothes was outside his home in a quiet residential area of Magnanville when he was stabbed by an unidentified assailant, who appeared to have then entered the house at around 8.30pm on Monday night and took the commander’s wife and 3-year-old son hostage, according to a statement on the website of the French Interior Ministry and a statement from President François Hollande.
Elite police squads rushed to the scene, sealed off the neighborhood, cut electricity and negotiated with the attacker who told them he was a soldier for ISIS and had sworn allegiance to the group.
Shortly afterwards loud detonations were heard as police stormed the house and killed the assailant. They found the woman dead and rescued the couple’s son alive.
Following the incident, French President Francois Hollande announced that a meeting would be held on Tuesday in which “all light will be shed” on the case.
Magnanville is about 35 miles from central Paris.
The authorities have been on alert for possible attacks with the Euro 2016 soccer tournament underway in France and multiple warnings of the possibility of terrorist attacks during the month-long event.
