Two men linked to French police killer charged
AFP
June 19, 2016 10:33 MYT
June 19, 2016 10:33 MYT
A photo taken off Facebook on June 14, 2016 shows an undated photo of Frenchman Larossi Abballa, 25, who murdered police couple Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and Jessica Schneider last Monday. - Facebook/AFP Photo
Two men linked to an extremist who killed a French police officer and his partner were charged and detained by an anti-terror court Saturday.
Saad Rajraji, 27, and Charaf-Din Aberouz, 29, were charged with having links to a terrorist group, but were not found to have any connection to the IS-inspired murder of the police couple carried out by Larossi Abballa last Monday.
The two men had been convicted along with Abballa in September 2013 as part of a network to send extremists to Pakistan, judicial sources close to the investigation said.
A third man arrested in the case was released without charge.
Abballa, a convicted radical who had been under surveillance, murdered the police officer and his partner outside their home and then was killed himself in a police raid.
Before he was killed, Abballa posted a live Facebook video of himself in which he admitted the murders and urged fellow radicals to carry out more bloodshed.
Monday's assault in a small town northwest of Paris was the first deadly strike in France since the coordinated attacks in the capital by an Islamic State cell in November, which killed 130 people.