PARIS, France – The French National Antiterrorist Prosecutor’s Office on Friday took over the investigation 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 depositary of public authority in relation to a terrorist organization and for a terrorist association.
THE DETAILS OF THE BLADE ATTACK
The events took place around 2:30 pm local time at the Rambouillet police station, some 28 miles 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 France Info station explained that the attacker was 36 years old, arrived in France in 2009 and was not registered by the intelligence services.
The BFM TV chain added that he entered the country illegally, regularized his situation in 2019 and worked as a delivery man.
The first Minister, Jean Castex, who traveled to the place to see what happened first-hand, highlighted before that displacement in a message on Twitter that France has just lost “one of its daily heroines in a barbarous act of infinite cowardice.”
RAMBOUILLET, A PLACE WITH A HISTORY OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
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 the forces of order. .
Its members were present at the attack on the Capitol in January.
Yvelines is also the same department in which the high school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on October 16, 2020 after having taught in a picture of Muhammad, a murder that spread the debate on freedom of expression or the right to freedom in the country. blasphemy.
“The same horrors, the same infinite sadness thinking about the relatives and colleagues of this murdered police, the same profiles guilty of this barbarism, the same Islamist motivations … We cannot take any more,” wrote the far-right leader Marine Le on Twitter. Pen.
The place, which was also attended by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, was cordoned off with the presence of numerous police and firefighters.