Police officer stabbed to death in Islamic terrorist attack in Paris suburb

The French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation this Friday into the murder of a police officer near Paris, who died shortly after being stabbed.Judicial sources indicated that the investigation has been opened for the murder of a person holding public authority in relation to a terrorist organization and for terrorist association.The events took place around 14.30:12.30 p.m. (50:XNUMX GMT) at the Rambouillet police station, about XNUMX kilometers southwest of the capital, and his attacker, a Tunisian national, according to the media, also died as a result of the shots received when he was arrested. .The national anti-terrorist prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, explained to the press that his office has taken charge of the case “due to the development of the events, which includes elements of location.” Also for its execution, the type of crime, the type of victim and the statements of the author at the time of the events.The France Info station detailed that the attacker was 36 years old, arrived in France in 2009 and was not registered by the intelligence services.The BFM TV network added that he entered the country illegally, regularized his situation in 2019 and worked as a delivery driver.The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, who traveled to the scene to learn first-hand what happened, denounced to the media that the woman was murdered “in a cowardly manner and in dramatic conditions.”The head of Government paid tribute to the agents who “immediately neutralized” the terrorist and stressed to the population that the country’s determination to fight terrorism “is more intact than ever.”Before going to the scene of the attack, Castex highlighted in a message on Twitter that France had just lost “one of its everyday heroines in a barbaric act.”Rambouillet is located in the same department, Yvelines, as the town of Magnanville, where in June 2016 a man killed a couple of police officers with a knife in their home and was later killed by law enforcement. .Yvelines is also the same department in which high school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on October 16 after having shown an image of Muhammad in class, a murder that spread the debate in the country about freedom of expression or the right to blasphemy.”The same horrors, the same infinite sadness thinking about the loved ones and colleagues of this murdered police officer, the same profiles guilty of this barbarity, the same Islamist motivations… We can’t take it anymore,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen wrote on Twitter.The place, where the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, also attended, was cordoned off with the presence of numerous police officers and firefighters. EFEPost navigation