French police arrested a man on Monday in connection with the jihadist murder of a police couple after his DNA was allegedly matched to traces found in their home near Paris, legal sources said.
It also claimed that the 24-year-old has been linked to Larossi Aballa, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremist who claimed the June 2016 attack in a live video from the murder scene before being killed by police in a shootout, the sources added.
The suspect, who was not on a terrorism watchlist, was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
His brother has already been charged with providing logistical assistance to Aballa, whose chilling attack - one in a string of assaults in France since January 2015 - caused shock in police ranks.
Aballa stabbed police captain Jean-Baptiste Salvaing to death outside his home in Magnanville, 60 kilometres west of Paris, and then slit the throat of his companion Jessica Schneider in front of the couple's three-year-old son.
In a Facebook Live video from the scene, he called for further terror attacks.
The man arrested Monday was already investigated over a foiled attack by a group of female jihadists who tried to set set fire to a car containing gas canisters near Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in September 2016.
French police arrested a man on Monday in connection with the jihadist murder of a police couple after his DNA was allegedly matched to traces found in their home near Paris, legal sources said.
French police arrested a man on Monday in connection with the jihadist murder of a police couple after his DNA was allegedly matched to traces found in their home near Paris legal sources said It also claimed that the 24-year-old has been linked to Larossi Aballa the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Isil extremist who claimed the June 2016 attack in a live video from the murder scene before being killed by police in a shootout the sources added The suspect who was not on a terrorism watchlist was arrested in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux His brother has already been charged with providing logistical assistance to Aballa whose chilling attack one in a string of assaults in France since January 2015 caused shock in police ranks Aballa stabbed police captain Jean-Baptiste Salvaing to death outside his home in Magnanville 60 kilometres west of Paris and then slit the throat of his companion Jessica Schneider in front of the couple's three-year-old son In a Facebook Live video from the scene he called for further terror attacks The man arrested Monday was already investigated over a foiled attack by a group of female jihadists who tried to set set fire to a car containing gas canisters near Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in September 2016