The French man who allegedly decapitated his boss and hung the head from a company fence took a selfie with the severed head — and shared the perverse pic with a friend, officials said Saturday.
Yassin Salhi, 35, allegedly sent the gruesome photo via WhatsApp to a Canadian cell phone number, according to officials.
French investigators were hunting for the recipient of the selfie, but were unable to confirm media reports that it was a person now in Syria.
Salhi was arrested Friday after killing his boss, Herve Cornara, and unsuccessfully trying to set off an explosion at the U.S.-owned Air Products factory near Lyon by plowing a truck into an area containing flammable liquids. The suspect instead caused only a small explosion and was attempting to ignite bottles of acetone when he was overpowered by firefighters, officials said.
“The question is not … if there will be another attack, but when,” he told AFP on the flight back to Paris.
“This macabre act of decapitation, staged with flags, is new in France,” he said.
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