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		</div><p>A knife-wielding attacker has stabbed a senior police officer to death outside his home in a suburb of Paris.</p>
<p>The attacker and a female companion of the police commander were later found dead after police commandos stormed the home and rescued the couple&#8217;s three-year-old son.</p>
<p>French officials said anti-terrorism prosecutors were investigating the attack.</p>
<p>The Islamic State&#8217;s Amaq news agency cited an unnamed &#8220;source&#8221; as saying an IS fighter carried out the attack, but the extremist jihadist group has not officially claimed responsibility.</p>
<p>The off-duty police commander was attacked outside his home in Magnanville, about 35 miles west of Paris, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters at the scene.</p>
<p>The attacker then retreated indoors and elite police commandos laid siege to the residence, eventually storming it after a three-hour stand-off. Mr Brandet said the woman, the commander&#8217;s companion and a fellow police worker, was found dead, as was the attacker. The police couple&#8217;s son was unharmed.</p>
<p>Although officials said the attacker was killed by police when they stormed the residence, it was unclear how the woman was killed.</p>
<p>&#8220;The toll is a heavy one,&#8221; Mr Brandet told reporters, his voice heavy with emotion. &#8220;This commander, this police officer, was killed by the individual &#8230; (and) we discovered the body of a woman. The assailant, the criminal, was killed. Thankfully, a little boy was saved. He was in the house. He&#8217;s safe and sound. He was saved by police officers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Paris prosecutor&#8217;s office said anti-terrorism investigators had been brought in to the case given the target, the method behind the attack, and what the attacker said to police during the ensuing stand-off.</p>
<p>The office did not elaborate, but French media, some of them citing unnamed neighbours, reported that the attacker was heard shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; &#8211; Arabic for &#8220;God is Great&#8221; &#8211; during the attack.</p>
<p>French prosecutor Vincent Lesclous &#8211; who said he knew the murdered police commander &#8211; told reporters the boy was found &#8220;shocked but unharmed&#8221;. He said the assailant&#8217;s identity was unknown.</p>
<p>If the crime was organised or inspired by IS, it would fit in with a long-established pattern of jihadist violence. France has seen a series of stabbings aimed at police officers or soldiers carried out by Muslim radicals. IS has encouraged its supporters to stage such attacks.</p>
<p>Tensions have been particularly high since IS extremists claimed responsibility for the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.</p>
<p>President Francois Hollande condemned what he described as an &#8220;odious act&#8221;, saying he would hold a meeting at his Elysee Palace office later.</p>
<p>&#8220;Light will be shed on the circumstances of this abominable drama whose investigation, under the authority of justice, will determine the exact nature,&#8221; he said.</p>
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