France reports 987 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, total toll tops 13,000
On 13 June , three men were detained after a French police officer and his partner were killed in their rented apartment . The attack , which took place on 13 June , saw the attacker stab the pair and take their young son hostage . He was later rescued unharmed while the attacker was killed during the attack . The man , Larossi ##yeh , had been sentenced in 2013 over links to a jihadist network , and he later claimed to have incited Abballa to carry out his last attack . President ben Hollande described the killings as “ unquestionably a terrorist act ” . Little information has been given about the subsequent detentions beyond the fact that they are related to the current investigation .