Jean Castex went to the Rambouillet (Yvelines) police station this Friday after the assassination of a police officer.
Stéphanie, 36, administrative officer and mother of two, was stabbed to death in the police station airlock by an assailant, 36 years old and of Tunisian origin.
Witnesses heard him shout "Allahu Akbar", according to a source close to the investigation.
On Twitter, the head of government spoke of "an everyday heroine", the victim of a "barbaric gesture of infinite cowardice".
Close to the site of the attack, the Prime Minister hammered: “Our determination to fight terrorism in all its forms is more than ever intact.
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The Republic has just lost one of its everyday heroines, in a barbaric gesture of infinite cowardice.
To those close to him, 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.
- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) April 23, 2021
"I went immediately on site with the Minister of the Interior to give all our support to the police and officials of the police station," continued the head of government, while the national anti-terrorism prosecution took up the investigation.
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The attacker was killed by retaliatory fire from a police officer.
Arrived in France in 2009 and in a regular situation, this man is unknown to the intelligence services, specifies a security source.
His criminal record is also clean.
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