Islamist terror returned to France this morning with at least three people reportedly killed when a Moroccan man, reportedly claiming allegiance to Isis, opened fire on police and then ran into a supermarket in Trebes, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ and vowing to avenge his “brothers in Syria”.
The gunman is now believed to have been killed by police, but there were media claims that the terrorist, apparently known to intelligence services for radicalisation, had asked for the release of Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor from the Islamist cell that killed 130 Parisians in November 2015.
The attack, the first against French civilians since the murder of two young women outside Marseille train station last October, is a reminder to the country’s political class that the Islamist menace has not gone away
Some politicians have undoubtedly become complacent in recent months, believing that France has come through the worst of the violence, despite warnings from security experts about the threat posed
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