French knife attacker wanted to 'hunt infidels'

A frame grab taken from Reuters video footage June 14, 2016 shows a still photograph of the suspected attacker, who police and justice sources have named as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, who stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and later killed his partner on Monday in an attack in Magnanville, a suburb some 60 km (40 miles) west of Paris, France, and claimed by Islamic State. REUTERS/Social Media via REUTERS TV

PARIS (Reuters) - A knife-wielding Islamist militant suspected of killing a French police commander and his partner at their home before being killed by police commandos had vowed five years ago to "hunt infidels" and been trained to slit the throats of rabbits.

Larossi Abballa, 25, a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an 12-minute video uploaded inside the victims' home on Monday evening hours before he was shot, had been under police surveillance for years.