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Following the attack, President Emmanuel Macron said France would never succumb to “Islamist terrorism.”
The attack, carried out in the wealthy and generally quiet town of Rambouillet, some 60 km southeast of Paris, has revived the memory of a series of bloody attacks in recent years attributed to radical Islamists.
French prosecutors against terrorism have announced the launch of a terrorism investigation in connection with the murder of a public official. DGSI’s internal intelligence service will also participate in the investigation.
The attack took place around 2 pm 20 minutes. in a police station lobby guarded by local time (3 pm 20 minutes, Lithuania), reported a police source, who wanted to remain anonymous.
According to him, the 49-year-old victim, who worked as an administrative assistant, was returning to work after a lunch break when she was stabbed twice in the throat. He soon died from his injuries.
The attacker was shot and killed by the police. The woman, who was a victim of the assault, raised two children between the ages of 13 and 18.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, who arrived at the scene, condemned the “barbaric act of unlimited cruelty” against the “hero of everyday life” on the social network Twitter.
“I want to tell the police that I feel the same emotions and indignation,” added the head of government.
The 36-year-old attacker entered France illegally in 2009, but later obtained a residence permit, citing a police source and adding that the security services were not aware of him. The man had recently moved to Rambouillet.
He screamed “Allahu Akbar” (the greatest of God) when he attacked a policeman, a source familiar with the investigation told AFP.
French antiterrorist prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard, whose office is leading the investigation, said in a statement near the Rambouille compound that “comments made by the attacker” indicate that he had terrorist motives.
A series of attacks
A series of attacks in recent years has rekindled concerns about the radical spread of Islam in France and immigration.
In September, a Pakistani man injured two people with a meat chop in an earlier issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
On October 16, a young Chechen refugee beheaded teacher Samuel Paty, who showed his students these cartoons.
On October 29, three people were killed when a newly arrived Tunisian knife attacked people in a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice.
During the most serious recent attack on French police in October 2019, an IT specialist stabbed three colleagues and a police officer. The attacker was subsequently shot.
It was later discovered that he was interested in radical Islam.
Those attacks came after a rampant Islamist extremist in 2015, which began with the massacre of Charlie Hebdo employees at his office in January of that year.
On November 13, 2015, 130 people were killed and another 350 injured in coordinated jihadist attacks on the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris, the national stadium, various bars and restaurants. It was the bloodiest peacetime attack in France.
In 2016, to mark the storming of the Bastille in Nice, a man broke into a crowd in a truck and killed 86 people.
A few weeks earlier, a man pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist movement stabbed two police officers at his home near Paris.
The Macron government passed legislation to curb the activities of radical Islamists in France. This initiative has caused outrage in some Muslim countries.
