According to RFI, the attacker then took the officer’s wife and son hostage in the home.
The ‘Elite Raid’ police officers were on the scene and a security perimeter was established, the report said.
A motive was not known but Reuters France reported: “Some neighbors believe hearing Islamist slogans proffered by the abuser.”
Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.
The fact that it was a specific police officer and his family kinda makes me thing of a revenge act and not a terrorism one. Either way, this is horrible.
The fact that it was a specific police officer and his family kinda makes me thing of a revenge act and not a terrorism one. Either way, this is horrible.
I thought about it too. The police officer served in a notoriously difficult town too, so yeah...