Terrorist attack in Lyon, France – man beheaded by IS militants

In a terrorist attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Lyon, a man has been decapitated and several others injured at a chemicals factory in France. The attack has been labeled as a terrorist attack by President Francois Hollande. The dead man had Arabic inscriptions on him and there was an Islamist flag found near the site.
This has been reported on bbc.com dated 26 June 2015.

It seems there were a number of explosions before two men drove into the Air Products gas factory near Lyon and crashed into it in a car. The Air Products is a US-based firm. One of the suspects, a 30-year-old who was known to police, has been arrested.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has ordered that security be stepped up at sensitive sites around Lyon. The attack has come nearly six months after Islamist attacks in and around Paris that had killed 17 people.
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announces a slew of measures to tackle terrorism

#CharlieHebdo #ManuelValls #paristerrorattack The terror attack in the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the death of 20 persons (including three Islamist gunmen) had taken France by surprise and Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced a €425m (£326m) program to combat terrorism.
Some of the measures announced include greater surveillance to root out terrorist suspects, augmenting the numbers of intelligence officers, gendarmes and police, apart from better and more sophisticated equipment for security services. It may be recalled that three police officers had lost their lives in the recent attacks in Paris, which started when gunmen stormed the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The improved surveillance programs include measures to prevent youngsters from becoming radicalized, the separation of religious fundamentalists in prisons and the prosecution of those who spread or support terrorism on the internet. In addition to these measures, constitutional experts are examining possibilities of whether convicted terrorists who hold dual nationality can be stripped of their French citizenship.
Already, over 122,000 police and military personnel – including 10,500 troops – have been deployed all over France to protect public places. Moreover, French security services have at present nearly 3,000 people under surveillance. Out of them, about 1,300 were French – or foreigners living in France – and they are suspected of having links with terrorists networks in Syria and Iraq in the past year.

Police believe that six more terror suspects are still lurking in Paris

#CharlieHebdo #ManuelValls #BenjaminNetanyahu In the opinion of the police, as many as six members of a terrorist cell that was involved in the Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo could still be at large – one of these was a man who was seen driving a car that is registered to the widow of one of the gunmen.
The authorities were searching the Paris area for the Mini Cooper that is registered in the name of Hayat Boumeddiene, the widow of Amedy Coulibaly – the woman, as per Turkish officials, is presently in Syria.
These disclosures have been made even as France has deployed 10,000 troops to protect sensitive sites that take into account Jewish schools and neighborhoods. This has been done following the attacks that killed 17 people last week. Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, apart from Coulibaly, their friend who claimed ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, have been killed in clashes with police.
It is not clear on how many members there were in the terror cell. While one of the police officials indicated that the cell consisted of about 10 members, and that "five or six could still be at large" another official believes that the network consisted of about eight people, including Hayat Boumeddiene.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has remarked that the manhunt is urgent because "the threat is still present." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to the Paris kosher grocery where four of the hostages were killed by the terrorists.