France: Muslim targets off-duty police officers, scream Allahu-Akhbar and takes hostages, kills one

A police raid in the Paris suburb commune of Magnanville has ended with the death of a hostage taker, who fatally stabbed a police officer near his house and then killed his wife. Reports claim the man was shouting Islamist slogans during the attack.

RAID special forces raided the premises and shot the stabber dead, Francetv info has reported, citing a French Interior Ministry spokesman. The officers discovered the body of a woman in the house and rescued a 3-year old boy.

The attacker shouted “Allah Akbar,” Le Parisien cited witnesses as saying.

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