The President of the Republic attended the private funeral of Stéphanie Monfeture.
This 49-year-old policewoman from Rambouillet was murdered in her police station.
A national tribute ceremony will be organized on Friday in Rambouillet.
It will be chaired by Prime Minister Jean Castex.
Emmanuel Macron and his wife attended the private funeral of Stéphanie Monfeture on Thursday afternoon, the police officer murdered Friday by a 36-year-old Tunisian in a police station in Rambouillet, in Yvelines. The Head of State and Brigitte Macron came privately to the village of Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines where the 49-year-old administrative agent resided and where she was buried at the end of a religious ceremony .
This ceremony being reserved for relatives and colleagues, the street leading to the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church was cordoned off at 2 p.m. by an important security device.
The journalists present were moved away 100 meters from the place of worship, towards the center of this village of 1,400 inhabitants.
Before his arrival, the President of the Republic had a wreath laid, among the twenty ornate tributes, under the wooden porch of the medieval church.
A public ceremony chaired by the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Jean Castex will preside over a national tribute ceremony in Rambouillet on Friday, a few meters from the police station where Stéphanie Monfeture was fatally attacked with a knife.
She will be awarded the Legion of Honor posthumously, Matignon said Thursday.
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During this public ceremony, Jean Castex will be accompanied by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, the Minister of Public Service Amélie de Montchalin, the Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, de City Minister Nadia Hai and government spokesperson Gabriel Attal.
The victim must also be summoned to the order of the Nation.
A modus operandi that corresponds to that of the Islamic State
The stabbing murder of an administrative officer from the Rambouillet police station sparked a stir in the country on top of the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty six months ago and the killing of the police headquarters from Paris in October 2019. The perpetrator of the attack, Jamel Gorchene, a 36-year-old Tunisian national with a residence permit, was shot dead by a police officer.
This delivery driver had no criminal record and was unknown to the intelligence and justice services. But its modus operandi corresponds to recurring calls from the Islamic State (IS) group to attack the police. According to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, the author, whose radicalization was "hardly questionable", presented "certain personality disorders".