PARIS (Sputnik) — He added that the terror threat in the country remained very high.
"[The murderer] himself wanted his act to be viewed as an act of terror," Hollande said, as quoted by BFMTV.
Earlier in the day, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed that the attack on the police commander and his family was a terror attack.
On Monday evening, a man stabbed the 42-year-old police commander and took his wife and child hostage in the Paris northwestern suburb of Magnanville. The wife was also killed, but the child was rescued.
The murderer, identified as Larossi Abballa, was killed in the assault by riot police.
