Officials on Tuesday said a convicted radical who killed a French police couple in an IS-inspired stabbing was carrying a "hit list" of VIPs and urged followers to turn Euro 2016 into a "graveyard." He took Salvaing's 36-year-old partner Jessica Schneider and the couple's three-year-old son hostage in the house and killed the woman by slitting her throat. A month later, three soldiers protecting a Jewish community centre in the French Riviera city of Nice were attacked by a man with a knife. The state of emergency is due to run out on July 26. Three associates of Abballa have been arrested over the attack, Mr. Molins said.

Source: The Hindu June 14, 2016 20:37 UTC