"The whole of the national territory is upgraded to enhanced security - risk of attack," the Interior Ministry warned on Friday, a few hours after the terrorist attack which cost the life of a policewoman, in a police station in Rambouillet, in the Yvelines.
In this message addressed to all the prefects of France, as well as to the directors of the national police and gendarmerie and the general direction of internal security, Gérald Darmanin calls for the "reinforcement of the security of the rights of way of the police and the gendarmerie ”.
The victim of this attack, Stéphanie M., a 49-year-old administrative agent, succumbed to stab wounds from a 36-year-old man, shouting "Allahu akbar", while she was in the airlock. entrance to the Rambouillet police station.
The latter, unknown to the police and intelligence, was shot dead by a police officer just after the facts and the anti-terrorism prosecution was seized of the investigations.
"In this context, you will take care […] to strengthen vigilance and security measures in and around police stations and gendarmerie brigades, in particular with regard to receptions", intends the letter of the Ministry of the Interior.
"Attention instructions to be observed for their own protection"
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin also visited the site after the facts, in the company of Prime Minister Jean Castex, who paid tribute to the police.
"To our heroines and everyday heroes who wear the uniform of the Republic every day with pride at the risk of their lives: the French know what they owe you," he wrote on Twitter.
To our heroines and everyday heroes who wear the uniform of the Republic with pride every day at the risk of their lives: the French know what they owe you.
On their behalf, I bow to you today with deep emotion and immense respect.
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- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) April 23, 2021
Place Beauvau also calls on those in charge of the police to "renew to police and military officials of the gendarmerie the instructions for attention to be observed for their own protection, in the exercise of their mission but also outside the service. ".
The ministry also recalls that the territory being placed at "risk of attack", it is necessary for its interlocutors "to ensure that the protection measures are effectively and durably in place, especially in places open to the public and places of cult ”.
Two attacks have affected the Yvelines department in recent years, among the wave of jihadist attacks which has left more than 260 dead in France since 2015. Five years ago, a couple of officials were assassinated in their house in Magnanville, by a man claiming to be from the Islamic State organization and on October 16, 2020, it is a college professor, Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by an 18-year-old young man.
