Paris : A French prosecutor confirmed today that the man who beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a gas factory in Lyon had a “terrorist motive” and links to the Islamic State group in Syria.
The investigation “indicates a terrorist motive in Yassin Salhi’s act, even though it is justified by personal considerations,” said Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins. The 35-year-old was arrested Friday after an attack in which he rammed his gas-filled delivery van into a warehouse containing dangerous chemicals, causing an explosion. The prosecutor said that Salhi claimed to have strangled his boss “with one hand” before stopping 500 metres before the factory to decapitate him with a knife with a 25 cm blade.
