"Why I beheaded my Boss": Yassin Salhi confesses to Fridays attack near Grenoble, Friday

Times of Israel | Terror

Victim of beheading: Herve Cornara.
(Credit: via ToI).

The man behind the first of a spate of attacks in three countries that left several people dead on Friday has reportedly opened up and confessed, the Times Israel reports.

Yassin Salhi (35) reportedly confessed to investigators into the beheading of his Boss in a factory near Grenoble France and the gas explosions that rocked the facility.

The world was alerted after the French media reported of an act of decapitation near Grenoble.

In the report, Sunday, ToI said Yassin Salhi also gave details about the circumstances surrounding the killing.  He is expected to be transferred to Paris for further questioning later Sunday by anti-terrorist police, according to the report.

Yassin Salhi reportedly arrived the gates of the company early on Friday with one other accomplice and once he drove through the gates, began shouting and shooting sporadically. He then set off some explosions before police arrived.

Accounts said Salhi rammed his van into the US-owned Air Products factory near France's second city of Lyon in an apparent attempt to blow up the building. President Fracois Hollande promptly declared it  a terror attack.

Yassin Salhi's wife reportedly refused to believe her husband was capable of doing such thing as beheading someone and claimed it was impossible because they were normal family.  She was later arrested the same day.

Herve Cornara, the victim was also said to be unknown to the company. 

But according Times of Israel, the confession came "after several hours of silence, in Salhi then begun to open up to investigators about the assault."

In January 2015, a spate of terrorists action left 17 people, including staff of a satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were killed in Islamist attacks in Paris for drawing a caricature of Prophet Muhammed.

On Friday Yassin Salhi's attempts to prise open a bottle of acetone, in apparent suicide bid to blow up the factory was frustrated by a firefighter.