The four victims of the attack at the Paris Police Headquarters will be decorated with the Legion of Honor on Tuesday during a national tribute ceremony during which President Emmanuel Macron will speak, said the Elysee. The ceremony to be held in the courtyard of the Prefecture will be held in two stages.
At the end of the ceremony, Emmanuel Macron will talk privately with the families
At 10:40 am, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner will hand the Legion of Honor, posthumously, to the four officials stabbed to death last Thursday by Mickaël Harpon, employee of the Intelligence Directorate of the Prefecture of Police of Paris (DRPP) .
Then at 11 am, Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Justice Ministers Nicole Belloubet and the Armies Florence Parly, will preside over a ceremony during which he will speak, said Monday the Elysee. At the end of this ceremony, the Head of State will meet privately with the families of the victims.
The policeman who shot down the assailant soon decorated
The trainee police officer who killed the assailant will soon be awarded the Legion of Honor, said Monday the Elysee. The 24-year-old peacekeeper, who remains anonymous, asked that this decoration be handed to him "at a later date" and not Tuesday, day of the tribute to the four victims of the attack to be presided over by Emmanuel Macron. The young man was present at the Prefecture for six days, when he found Thursday at midday in the yard against Mickael Harpon, who had stabbed four colleagues in the premises. After several summons to ask him to surrender, and seeing that he ran in his direction pointing his knife, he fired twice and killed him.