After the Paris knife attack, Emmanuel Macron said France would not give in to “Islamist terrorism”

President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France would not give in to “Islamist terrorism” after the stabbing murder of a policeman in a police station near Paris by a man who shouted “Allah Akbar”.

“We will not give in in the fight against Islamist terrorism”, Macron said in a post on Twitter, in which he paid tribute to the 49-year-old woman who died at the entrance to the police station where she worked in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris.

The Prime Minister Jean Castex, who went to the scene of the attack, denounced in the same social network a “barbaric act of unlimited cruelty” against “an everyday heroine”.

“I want to tell the police that I share your emotion and your indignation“He added.

“Our determination in the fight against terrorism, in all its forms, remains intact”Castex reiterated to the press.

The perpetrator stabbed the woman to death, shouting “Allah Akbar”, before being killed, in a crime for which a terrorist investigation has been opened.

The attack that took place in the police station in this affluent and generally peaceful city of 26,000 inhabitants about 60 kilometers from Paris he rekindled alarms in a country regularly hit by Islamist attacks.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the administrative officer was stabbed twice in the throat at the entrance to the police station as she returned from her lunch break around 2:20 p.m. (12:20 p.m. GMT).

The victim, A mother of two, she first suffered from cardiac arrest and died shortly after, despite the intervention of rescuers.

The attacker, from 36 years old, came to France illegally in 2009, but had since obtained a residence permit, pointed out a police source, who added that I had no criminal record. He had just moved to Rambouillet.

The last years have been marked by several knife attacks in France. In October 2020, in this same department of the country (Yvelines) a A secondary school teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old of Chechen descent.

In the same month, three people were killed by a Tunisian newcomer to France in a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice.

In September, a Pakistani man injured two people with a knife in front of aFormer headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, who had published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

And on October 3, 2019, in the premises of the Paris police headquarters, an employee he killed three policemen and an administrative official with a knife, before being killed.

The Macron government is trying to pass a bill which aims to strengthen the legislative arsenal of fight against radical Islamism in France, but for its detractors, the text stigmatizes Muslims and limits freedoms.

With information from AFP

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