The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has requested an assize trial for four suspects in the investigation into the assassination of police officer Xavier Jugelé on the Champs-Élysées. On April 20, 2017, three days before the first round of the presidential election, Karim Cheurfi, a 39-year-old Frenchman with a heavy judicial past and already convicted of attempted murders on police officers, shot Xavier Jugelé and injured two other members of the police, before being shot. The killed policeman was driving a van parked along the avenue. Xavier Jugelé had been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor posthumously. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State organization.
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