“It was truly a murder attempt. There was blood everywhere. The family-visiting unit was a battle scene.”

Before too long, all of France will be a battle scene.

“Islamist inmate screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabs two guards in ‘terror incident’ during wife’s conjugal visit to French prison where he is serving 28 years for killing Jewish Holocaust survivor,” by Ross Ibbetson and Peter Allen, Mailonline, March 5, 2019:

A radicalised Islamist inmate screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabbed two guards in a ‘terror incident’ during a conjugal visit by his wife at a French prison.

Michael Chiolo, 27, slashed one across the face and back and gave the other a serious chest wound causing blood to be sprayed across the family unit at the complex in Conde-sur-Sarthe in Normandy.

He has retreated into a room used for private visits with his wife who is said to have smuggled in a ceramic knife used in the assault.

Chiolo was dubbed a ‘psychopath’ by a French judge for his part in the kidnap, torture and death of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in 2012.

Chiolo claims he has an explosives belt and reportedly declared allegiance to ISIS.

The Islamist and his wife are reportedly telling police they wish to die as martyrs, Ouest France reported.

An army helicopter was scrambled to the scene and sniffer dogs have been deployed over fears of explosives.

Local media are reporting that a raid on the room where he has sequestered himself could be imminent.

Prison staff representative Alassanne Sall confirmed he was believed to be ‘radicalised’ and had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is great) during the assault.

‘It was truly a murder attempt. There was blood everywhere. The family-visiting unit was a battle scene,’ said Sall, from the Force Ouvriere trade union.

French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said the inmate’s wife ‘feigned illness’ at around 9.45am, leading to two prison officers arriving in a room in the family unit, which is designed to give couples privacy during visiting hours.

It is then that the inmate slashed out with his knife, wounding one man in the chest, and the other in the back and face. Both have since been treated, and neither is in a life-threatening condition.

The wife is thought to have smuggled a ceramic knife into the prison, and there were also fears that explosives may also have been made available to her husband….