The suspect in the beheading of a businessman, Yassine Salhi, a towel over his head to mask his face, is escorted by police officers as they leave his home in Saint-Priest, outside the city of Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 28, 2015. (AP)
(VOVworld) - A French prosecutor confirmed Tuesday that the man who beheaded his boss and tried to blow up a gas factory in Lyon had a "terrorist motive" and links to the Isis group in Syria. Yassin Salhi's barbaric attack "corresponded exactly to the orders given by the IS”, said Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins, pointing specifically to the decapitation of his boss Hervé Cornara, 54. Molins said his attempt to blow up the Air Products gas factory by crashing his car into cylinders "resembled a martyr operation" but that the decapitation of his manager was also motivated by personal hatred. Prosecutor Francois Molins announced the news at the end of an initial 96-hour custody following the arrest of Salhi, 35, who was arrested at the scene of the crime near the southern city of Lyon on Friday.