PARIS – The police officer killed in the Rambouillet police station was returning from lunch at around 2.30 pm. She was in charge of administrative functions. The attacker, a 36-year-old Tunisian, entered the police station armed and hit her with a fatal stab in the throat. The agents reacted immediately and the man, a Tunisian, was hit by at least two bullets. Rescue, he died shortly after despite attempts to save him.
The Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor investigates the murder of the 49-year-old policewoman. The PNAT announces that it has opened “a flagrant investigation into the murder of a public official in relation to a terrorist attack and a criminal association of a terrorist nature”, jointly entrusted to the Central Directorate of Criminal Police (DCPJ) and to the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI).
According to police unions, cited by the broadcaster Bfm-tv, at the moment of the attack the attacker would have shouted “Allah Akbar”. The Prosecutor’s Office will make official statements later. According to information from the newspaper The Parisian, the attacker – with a clean record and who was not listed among the people at risk of radicalization – had arrived in France from Tunisia in 2009.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex and Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin immediately went to Rambouillet. “The Republic has lost one of its everyday heroines, for a barbaric gesture and infinite cowardice”, was the premier’s first comment via Twitter. “To his family – he added – I want to express the support of the whole nation. To our security forces, I want to say that I share their emotion and their indignation”.
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