"Our determination to fight terrorism in all its forms is more than ever intact," Prime Minister Jean Castex hammered on Friday, near the Rambouillet police station where a police officer was killed in a knife attack.
The head of government went with the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, to the police station of this city of nearly 26,000 inhabitants, located about sixty kilometers south-west of Paris to "provide all our support to the police and officials of the police station ”where the victim was practicing.
The facts took place around 2:20 p.m. in the entrance hall of the police premises.
The administrative officer of the secretariat, aged 49, was returning from her lunch break when the assailant stabbed her twice in the throat, according to the first elements of the investigation.
He was then shot dead by a police officer who came to the aid of his colleague.
The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) announced that it had taken up the investigation after having learned of the existence of certain "elements of identification" on the part of the murderer as well as "remarks made by the author during the realization of the facts ”, explained the antiterrorist prosecutor Jean-François Ricard during a press point.