Abballa was convicted in September 2013 for belonging to a jihadist cell that recruited fighters to send to Pakistan.
The incident came the same day an extremist claiming allegiance to IS stabbed two police officials to death in a Paris suburb.
The 25-year-old attacker called on other Muslims to attack 'police, journalists, public figures, prison guards and rappers,' listing around a dozen well-known figures by name.
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