Paris police attacker had 'radical vision of Islam'

PARIS - The employee at Paris police headquarters who stabbed four colleagues to death in a frenzied attack adhered to "a radical vision of Islam", an anti-terror prosecutor said on Saturday.

The 45-year-old computer expert had been in contact with Salafists, members of an ultraconservative branch of Sunni Islam, and defended "atrocities committed in the name of that religion", Jean-Francois Ricard told reporters.

The assailant, Mickael Harpon, was shot dead by police.