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Rambouillet (AP) - After the alleged terror attack on a police officer near Paris, investigators are looking for possible backers of the suspect.
Police took three people close to the 36-year-old into custody on Friday evening, as confirmed by the judiciary of the German Press Agency in Paris.
The attacker was killed by the police immediately after the crime.
It initially remained unclear whether the people in the vicinity actually had something to do with the bloody attack.
It is quite common in France after terrorist attacks to detain people in police custody who have been linked to alleged perpetrators.
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Investigators searched two apartments for information from the AFP news agency, including that of the suspect from Tunisia.
He brutally murdered the 49-year-old woman in Rambouillet near Paris with a knife.
The circumstances of the crime indicated an Islamist background - this was initially not explicitly confirmed by investigators.
"In the fight against Islamist terrorism, we do not give in," said President Emmanuel Macron after the bloody act via Twitter.
According to initial findings, the woman was attacked from behind by the man at the police station in Rambouillet.
According to the media, her throat is said to have been cut.
She died on the scene.
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France has been rocked by Islamist attacks for years.
More than 250 innocent people were killed.
In October, nearby, the teacher Samuel Paty was brutally beheaded by an Islamist.
The attack sparked political controversy in France.
The far right politician Marine Le Pen commented on Twitter that the same horrors always followed one another.
There are always "the same Islamist motives" and the government is too lax on security issues.
Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti reacted and accused the head of the right-wing extremist party Rassemblement National (RN / formerly: Front National) of taking advantage of the tragedy with cynicism and unworthiness.
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