Police officers in the 18th arrondissement of Paris shot dead a presumed terrorist who tried to storm a Paris police station.

Image: A man was shot dead in front of a Paris police station; a robot is examining the body

A man was shot dead by police forces in Paris' 18th arrondissement. Investigators revealed he was a 20 year old Tunisian called Tarek Belgacem, born in Casablanca on 25 May 1995. He was arrested in 2013 for theft in south of France (Sainte Maxime): his finger prints allowed the investigators to identify him as the man who had been arrested in 2013. 

Identity

When arrested in 2013, the man said his name was Ali Sallah, but had no ID to confirm his true identity. In a radio interview the day after the thwarted attack, Paris Prosecutor François Molins declared he was "not sure at all" that Ali Sallah is the man's real name.  It was Tunisian media who identified him as Tarek Belgacem. 

On a piece of paper found on his body (see below for more about the paper), Belgacem had written a shahada (a Muslim profession of faith).The shahada included his name, and self description. The attacker calls himself Tunisian in the shahada, not Moroccan as expected if the man were Ali Sallah. 

Paris prosecutor added the man was an isolated individual, not acting on orders of a group. He fits the profile of so-called 'lone wolves'. 

He should not have been on French soil

Although we still do not know for sure the man's real identity, it is certain that he should not have been on French soil at the time of the thwarted attack: he had been issued with an official obligation to leave the country, following his arrest in 2013 for theft. 

Ali Sallah was part of a group stealing sun glasses on the beach, and had been identified as homeless at the time of his arrest. 

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Shahada, IS flag, and motives written on paper

Ali Sallah was carrying a drawing of the IS flag; on the same paper, investigators also found a pledge of allegiance written in Arabic, swearing allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and indicating his motives for the thwarted attack was "to avenge deaths in Syria."

Armed: butcher knife and fake explosive belt

Ali Sallah, armed with a butcher's knife (chopper), was running towards the police stationrue de la Goutte d'Or when he was shot by officers. He reportedly shouted "Allah Akbar" before being shot down. The police officers in front of the station fired their arms three times. 

Image: The man was carrying a chopper 

Although initially believed to be wearing an explosive belt, further examination showed the device was fake. Ali Sallah was wearing a belt out of which electric cables could be seen, which led the police officers to believe he was wearing an explosive device. A bomb diffusing robot remotely controlled showed the device did not actually contain explosives. 

Phone

In his phone, investigators found messages in Arabic and German.

The phone's SIM card is a German SIM, still under investigation. 

The attack attempt has come on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack one year anniversary. 

Residents near the scene in Rue de la Goutte d'Or in the 18th arrondissement have been told to shut their windows and keep off their balconies. Two schools near the police station have been confined.

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ISIS child executioner ignores prisoners' pleas to spare them... then shoots them in the head without hesitating: Shocking footage shows how “Islamic State's evil” has spread to the next generation.

Harrowing new footage has emerged of a young boy executing prisoners on the banks of the Tigris River, amid one of the biggest massacres ever committed by ISIS terrorists.

Filmed during the ISIS killing spree in Tikrit last year, the young boy is seen shooting at least two men in the head after adults have dragged the prisoners before him.

Ignoring prisoners' pleas for mercy, the child grasps a pistol with both hands as he pulls the trigger. The men's limp bodies are then cast into the water, which soon flows red with blood.

Images of the child executioner are just a small part of a graphic 22minute-long video released by the terrorists at the weekend.

It was recorded during the Speicher massacre last year - an atrocity which left an estimated 1,700 martyred cadets and ranks among the worst to have occurred in Iraq over the past decade.

A group of Iraqi military cadets beg for their lives moments before being killed and thrown into the river

ISIS has released new footage showing hundreds of people being killed during the infamous Speicher massacre

ISIS has released new footage showing hundreds of people being killed during the infamous Speicher massacre

 

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Islamic State group militants reportedly strapped an orphaned baby to a device that was blown up as part of a training camp exercise on improvised devices. Using a remote control detonator, the militants imploded the device attached to the baby during the demonstration, according to media reports. 

The training reportedly took place last week in the northern Iraqi province of Salahuddin, where the Islamic State group -- also known as ISIS or ISIL -- has won considerable territory. Child soldiers are part of ISIS' war strategy and have been featured heavily in ISIS propaganda videos.

"The booby-trapping of the baby was a training mission for ISIS to teach its elements the booby-trapping mechanisms," according by Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee in Diyala province, Iraq. He said the baby's father had previously been executed for killing several ISIS militants. As further punishment, the baby was brought to the training camp, al-Husseini told Iraqi news.

"The organization does not care for the most basic human values," he said. “Their crimes are incalculable, and the blowing up of the baby is the best proof to the threat of ISIS’ ideology to the state.”

ISIS is known for using brutal acts of violence to win over new followers. In recent weeks, the militant group has been accused of kidnapping young girls because they refused to participate in “sex jihad” and amputating men's sex organs. The ISIS fighters “let their blood drain until they died while [their] hands were tied,” one media report claimed.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi government announced Monday a new military operation aimed at pushing ISIS militants out of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, the country’s largest, the Guardian reported. The campaign includes Shia militias, Iraqi military units and Sunni tribesmen. The operation comes nearly two months after ISIS seized Ramadi, the province’s capital.

“We promise to exact revenge from the criminals of Daesh in the field of battle,” Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said in a statement, using another name for ISIS. “Their cowardly crimes against unarmed civilians will only increase our resolve in pursuing them and evicting them from the last inch of Iraq’s territory.”