France Beheading ISIS attack as man is found decapitated
A man has been Beheaded in a suspected ISIS attack by attackers brandishing Islamist flags at a French factory near Grenoble.
In a further sick demonstration,the severed head had Arabic writing scrawled across it and was found on a fence next to two jihadi banners.
Two other people were hurt in explosions at the factory, French President Francois Hollande said.
The blasts were triggered when two attackers deliberately crashed a car into
gas canisters, according to police. A 30-year-old man has been arrested. 
Le Parisien reported gunshots and that one Islamist had been killed at the premises in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeastern France.
Le Dauphine newspaper reported that police are hunting for another man associated with the attack.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking from the scene, described the attack as "barbarous" and a "terrible terrorist crime".
He said that the arrested man had been known to foreign intelligence services since 2008 and may have been radicalised.
He did not have a criminal record, Mr Cazeneuve said.
Mr Hollande has cut short all of his engagements at the EU summit in Belgium to return to France for emergency talks.
"The attack was of a terrorist nature since a body was discovered, decapitated and with inscriptions," Mr Hollande told a news conference in Brussels.
He added that a considerable police force had been deployed in the region and other industrial sites protected to avoid any further incidents.
"The president saw the first images of the attack on the 24-news channels with German Chancellor Angela Merkel beside him, who was visibly shocked," an official added.
The two leaders had just ended a short meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
David Cameron has spoken to Mr Hollande in Brussels to express his sympathies. Downing Street described the attack as an "appalling incident".
Employees at the factory - Air Products - are said to be "very shocked".
One witness called Caroline, from a neighbouring factory, said: "I heard a really loud noise. Fire engines arrived with the police.
"We thought it was a motorway accident."
Sky's foreign affairs editor Sam Kiley said: "There has been a concerted effort by Islamic State to reach out to their followers in France and exhortations to conduct this sort of attack.
"We saw with the Charlie Hebdo attack these were also self-starter individuals who had had training from al Qaeda in Yemen.
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"One of the three said he was there on behalf of Islamic State, the other two claimed membership of al Qaeda.
"In a sense it doesn't matter. What matters is that people are inspired to carry out terrorist attacks."
source sky News.