Terrorist Kills Police Employee With Knife At Police Station Door Near Paris

Tunisian citizen stabbed policeman to death on Friday shouting “Allah is great”, before being killed, at the Rambouillet police station, southwest of Paris, and for which an investigation for terrorism has been opened.

The attack on Rambouillet, a wealthy and generally peaceful town about 60 kilometers from Paris, revived alarms in a country regularly hit by Islamist attacks. President Emmanuel Macron He said France would not give in to him.Islamist terrorism“.

“We will not give in in the fight against Islamist terrorismMacron said in a post on Twitter.

The attack took place around 2:20 p.m. (12:20 GMT) at the entrance to the police station in the city of 26,000, they told the news agency. AFP police sources.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the 49-year-old administrative officer was stabbed twice in the throat on his return from his lunch break.

The victim, a mother of two, first suffered cardiac arrest and died shortly thereafter., despite the intervention of rescuers.

Her attacker, of Tunisian nationality, attacked her shouting “Allah is great”, according to a source close to the investigation. The man was killed shortly after by another officer, said a police source.

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

“I want to tell the police that I share their excitement and their outrage,” he added.

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

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The 36-year-old striker arrived in France illegally in 2009But he had since been granted a residence permit, a police source said, adding that he had no criminal record. He had just moved to Rambouillet.

A security cordon prevented a dozen onlookers from approaching the police station, located in an affluent residential area, a journalist from the AFP.

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

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 outside the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie hebdo, who had published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

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

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

(With information from AFP)

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