PARIS—A man who stabbed two police officials to death at their home in a Paris suburb posted a video online confessing to the killings and pledging loyalty to the Islamic State (ISIS). The attacker also had a list of other targets, including rappers, journalists, police officers and public officials.
The French president urged heightened security and vigilance after what he said was “incontestably a terrorist act.”
The attack hit the country’s raw nerves after ISIS attacks in November killed 130 people, and as 90,000 security forces are deployed to protect the European Championship soccer tournament taking place across France for a month.
ISIS’s Amaq news agency released a video Tuesday showing suspect Larossi Abballa, which appears to be filmed inside the home of the victims as security forces closed in.
“I just killed a police officer and his wife,” he says, adding: “The police are currently surrounding me.”
