Special forces from France's Research and Intervention Brigades leave Yassine Salhi's home with an unidentified woman today.
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Four people are in custody in connection to a beheading and explosion at a gas factory in south-eastern France - and police are still searching buildings for evidence.
Heavily armed police investigating this morning's brutal terror attack in France have removed a woman and child from the home of Yassine Salhi - the suspected Islamist accused of beheading his boss and trying to blow up the American-owned gas factory.
He was known to factory personnel because he came in regularly for deliveries, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said.
Police swooped on the apartment building in Saint-Priest, in the suburbs of the city of Lyon, just hours after the 30-year-old delivery driver was arrested on suspicion of writing Arabic slogans on his employer's severed head and hanging it on a fence outside the nearby headquarters of Air Products.
Salhi is accused of going on to crash his Ford Fusion delivery van through the factory's gates before ramming it into several large gas cannisters left in the car park - apparently in the hope they would explode and destroy the entire factory complex.
The explosions were relatively small, however, leaving just two factory workers with non life-threatening injuries.
The murdered man - who French media say owned the delivery company Salhi worked for - is believed to have been killed elsewhere before his corpse was dumped at the factory site in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier and his head impaled on a fence 30 feet away surrounded by homemade Islamist flags.
Speaking before the raid on her home, Salhi's wife described her husband as a 'normal Muslim' who left for work as usual at 7am this morning. 'My heart stopped when I heard he was a suspect....I expected him this afternoon,' the unnamed woman told French radio station Europe 1.
Salhi - who is understood to have been known to security services since at least 2006 - reportedly told arresting officers that he is a member of the Islamic State terror group. He is believed not to have a criminal record and an investigation into his 'possible radicalisation' was dropped in 2008.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3140304/Decapitated-body-Islamist-flag-industrial-estate-France.html
Armed police investigating French decapitation terror attack swoop on former home of suspected Islamist and remove woman and child after Yassine Salhi is accused of beheading his boss
Shocking attack took place at the headquarters of American-owned Air Products close to Lyon in southern France
A severed head covered in Arabic writing was then placed on the factory's fence along with two Islamist flags
Suspect then drove through factory gates, crashing into gas cannisters and causing blasts that injured onlookers
Alleged killer has been named as father of three Yassine Salhi, 30, with the victim believed to be his employer
The company both men worked for is understood to have regularly delivered to the Air Products factory
Delivery driver's wife later claimed that Salhi was a 'normal Muslim' who left for work as usual at 7am today
By JOHN HALL and FIDELMA COOK and SIMON TOMLINSON and PETER ALLEN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:18 EST, 26 June 2015 | UPDATED: 13:03 EST, 26 June 2015
Four people are in custody in connection to a beheading and explosion at a gas factory in south-eastern France - and police are still searching buildings for evidence.
Heavily armed police investigating this morning's brutal terror attack in France have removed a woman and child from the home of Yassine Salhi - the suspected Islamist accused of beheading his boss and trying to blow up the American-owned gas factory.
He was known to factory personnel because he came in regularly for deliveries, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said.
Police swooped on the apartment building in Saint-Priest, in the suburbs of the city of Lyon, just hours after the 30-year-old delivery driver was arrested on suspicion of writing Arabic slogans on his employer's severed head and hanging it on a fence outside the nearby headquarters of Air Products.
Salhi is accused of going on to crash his Ford Fusion delivery van through the factory's gates before ramming it into several large gas cannisters left in the car park - apparently in the hope they would explode and destroy the entire factory complex.
The explosions were relatively small, however, leaving just two factory workers with non life-threatening injuries.
The murdered man - who French media say owned the delivery company Salhi worked for - is believed to have been killed elsewhere before his corpse was dumped at the factory site in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier and his head impaled on a fence 30 feet away surrounded by homemade Islamist flags.
Speaking before the raid on her home, Salhi's wife described her husband as a 'normal Muslim' who left for work as usual at 7am this morning. 'My heart stopped when I heard he was a suspect....I expected him this afternoon,' the unnamed woman told French radio station Europe 1.
Salhi - who is understood to have been known to security services since at least 2006 - reportedly told arresting officers that he is a member of the Islamic State terror group. He is believed not to have a criminal record and an investigation into his 'possible radicalisation' was dropped in 2008.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3140304/Decapitated-body-Islamist-flag-industrial-estate-France.html
Armed police investigating French decapitation terror attack swoop on former home of suspected Islamist and remove woman and child after Yassine Salhi is accused of beheading his boss
Shocking attack took place at the headquarters of American-owned Air Products close to Lyon in southern France
A severed head covered in Arabic writing was then placed on the factory's fence along with two Islamist flags
Suspect then drove through factory gates, crashing into gas cannisters and causing blasts that injured onlookers
Alleged killer has been named as father of three Yassine Salhi, 30, with the victim believed to be his employer
The company both men worked for is understood to have regularly delivered to the Air Products factory
Delivery driver's wife later claimed that Salhi was a 'normal Muslim' who left for work as usual at 7am today
By JOHN HALL and FIDELMA COOK and SIMON TOMLINSON and PETER ALLEN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:18 EST, 26 June 2015 | UPDATED: 13:03 EST, 26 June 2015
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