Yassine Salhi, a French Salafist who was the subject of three years of surveillance by the government from 2006-2008, was arrested today as the apparent attacker in a strike against the US-owned Air Products plant in France’s Lyon region.
Salhi worked for a transportation company which did business with the plant, and used one of the company’s vehicles to infiltrate the site. He rammed some gas tanks at the plant, causing an explosion, though reportedly it did not do the massive amount of damage he anticipated.
The severed head of Salhi’s boss at the transportation company was found at the scene, with Arabic writing on it. Two flags covered in writing were also found at the scene, though so far officials have not revealed what any of them said.
The attacker apparently almost escaped the site after the attack, but was caught by one of the firefighters who arrived to deal with the explosion, and was transferred to police. No group has claimed responsibility for the strike yet, and it is unclear if this was an orchestrated strike for some faction, or a lone wolf incident.
What are the chances this is a fake? The guy is one more character under surveillance for years. An explosion AND a beheading by one very busy guy?
Nonesense.This nothing more than work realated murder like many of incidents that has taken place in the US and others,but since the one who did the killing happened to be a Muslim therefore it must a terrorisitic act.
Sounds like a standard "going postal" event to me. If the guy had been russian, it would have been "russian aggression".
The severed head of Salhi’s boss at the transportation company was found at the scene, with Arabic writing on it.
It probably said "there can be only one"
The French government made a mistake by supporting imperialism in the Muslim world. They helped completely remove the led from Pandora's box. The attacker was at least modeling the gangsta jihad he sees in French supported wars in Libya and Syria. Now they must live in fear of the unknown and far right politicians as refugees from the places they helped destroy come seeking asylum.