Man stabbed policeman to death in police station near Paris

Meanwhile, the French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, and the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, visited the police station in this wealthy and generally peaceful town of 26,000 inhabitants, located about 60 kilometers southwest of the French capital.

“Our determination in the fight against terrorism, in all its forms, remains intact,” reiterated the Prime Minister to the press, who denounced a “barbaric act of limitless cruelty” against “a daily heroine”. “I want to tell the police that I share their excitement and their outrage,” he added.

According to the first elements of the investigation, 49-year-old administrative official was stabbed twice in the throat at the cry of Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest) as she returned from her lunch break.

“The horror targets and strikes the police again,” reacted the Alianza police union on its Twitter social network account.

The alleged assailant, a 36-year-old Tunisian national, was killed shortly after by another policeman, a security force source told local media.

The victim, mother of two, initially suffered from cardiac arrest and died shortly thereafter, despite the intervention of doctors.

The attacker arrived in France illegally in 2009, but had since obtained a residence permit, said a police source, adding that he had no criminal record and had just moved to Rambouillet.

In recent years, there have been several knife attacks in France, one of the most memorable of which occurred on October 16, 2020, when in this same department of the country (Yvelines) a high school teacher was beheaded by an 18-year-old. .

The French antiterrorist prosecution will be in charge of the investigation into the attack on the police officer in Rambouillet “because of the modus operandi of the aggressor, his objective and the place where the events occurred”, reported the chain of French television BFMTV.