The man who was beheaded by an ISIS fanatic at a factory in France has been named as Herve Cornara.
Pictured left, Cornara was the boss at ATC-colicom in Chassieu - near the scene of yesterday's horrific execution.
His head was found pinned to the gates at the American-owned Air
Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. It was surrounded by two
Islamist flags
Cornara ran his own business offering a delivery service.
Four people were in custody in connection with his beheading, and for
setting off the explosion at the Air Products gas factory in
south-eastern France.
A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office today confirmed that one
of the four suspects detained has been released, while the suspected
assassin isn't speaking to investigators.
Heavily armed police have removed a woman and child from the home of
Yassine Salhi - the suspected Islamist accused of carrying out the
terror act.
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 Air Products 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.
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