PARIS — A French jihadi who stabbed a police commander and his partner to death confessed to his crimes in an online video before he was killed by police. <br /> <br />Larossi Abballa, 25, knifed police commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, repeatedly in the stomach outside his home in the Paris suburb of Magnanville on Monday. The terrorist then took the policeman’s partner Jessica Schneider, 36, and their 3-year-old son hostage inside their home, Reuters reported. <br /> <br />Schneider was found dead by police after special forces raided the house and killed Abballa. The boy survived unharmed. <br /> <br />Abballa posted a message to Facebook Live moments after the attack, pledging allegiance to ISIS. The video appears to have been filmed inside the couple’s home. <br /> <br />In the video, Abballa warns that the Euro 2016 soccer championships currently taking place in France would be targeted by Islamist terrorists, and threatens French president Francois Hollande. <br /> <br />Abballa’s Facebook page was taken down but the video was re-released by the ISIS-linked Amaq news agency, according to Reuters. <br /> <br />Abballa was born in France and is of Moroccan descent. He was jailed in 2013 for attempting to recruit Islamist militants to fight in Pakistan, Reuters reported, citing a Paris prosecutor. <br /> <br />Abballa was under police surveillance at the time of the attack and was subject to court-ordered wiretaps last year after one of his relatives travelled to Syria. <br /> <br />During the attack, Abballa told police negotiators he had answered an appeal by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to kill infidels at home with their families. <br /> <br />Authorities said Abballa had a list of potential targets including rappers, journalists and police officers, according to Reuters.
