A French assailant has recorded a video of an attack in which two police officials died, authorities said, as France's leadership reeled from what the president called a new "terrorist attack".
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) Amaq news agency cited an unnamed source as saying an ISIL fighter carried out the late-night attack in the Paris suburb of Magnanville on Monday.
Two police officials, a man and woman who lived together, were killed. The attacker, identified as 25-year-old Larossi Abbala, was also killed, while the couple's 3-year-old child survived.
French President Francois Hollande held an emergency security meeting on Tuesday about what he said was "incontestably a terrorist act."
He said France was facing a threat "of a very large scale."
"France is not the only country concerned (by the terrorist threat), as we have seen, again, in the United States, in Orlando," he said.
France has been on particularly hi
