Man on terror watch list kills relatives near Paris, officials say
IS claims to have influenced man who stabbed sister, mother to death
PARIS — A man on a terrorism watch list fatally stabbed his mother and sister, and seriously wounded another person, in a Paris suburb on Thursday, before the police shot him to death, the authorities said.
As of Thursday night, officials said they believed that the killing was related to family issues, which Frédéric de Lanouvelle, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, described as “pretty tense.” Mr. de who would be following the instructions of terrorist organizations.” He described the attacker as having “important psychiatric Lanouvelle, speaking on problems.” BFM television, did not The attack took place in a identify the assailant but residential area of Trappes, said he was 36. a working-class and ethnically
The Amaq News diverse suburb southwest Agency, which is linked to of Paris. the Islamic State, said the The attacker killed his terrorist group had sister and wounded another claimed responsibility for person, who was not a relative, the knife attack. The claim on the street where his was made in language indicating mother lived, and then entered that the attacker his mother’s house was inspired by the group’s and killed her there, the ideology, rather than being minister said. a core member. Mr. Collomb praised the
But Interior Minister Gérard response of the police, who Collomb said the assailant were alerted at 9:30 a.m., was “more someone and called the attack a unstable rather than someone “tragedy.”
Trappes, which has a reputation for insecurity and violence, has been plagued by unemployment — 20 percent, more than twice the national average. It has a large Muslim population and produced soccer player Nicolas Anelka and popular comedian Omar Sy.
There have not been any large- scale attacks in France this year, but terrorism-related knife attacks have become more frequent. In May, a 20-yearold man stabbed five passers-by, one fatally, in a crowded Parisian neighborhood before he was killed by the police.
Last October, an assailant stabbed two women to death in front of the St.-Charles train station in Marseille.
A bulletin from the Amaq News Agency, released on the messaging app Telegram, described the attacker in Trappes as a “fighter of the Islamic State,” but added that he “carried out the attack in response to appeals to target citizens of Coalition countries.”
The phrasing of the bulletin is lifted from a famous speech by a former spokesman for the group, encouraging followers around the world to kill “infidels.” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, repeated the message in an audio recording of a speech released on Wednesday, his first in almost a year.