[Daily Mail - Where America Gets Its News] Emmanuel Macron has vowed to 'never give up' the fight against Islamist terrorism after a female police worker was killed by a knifeman who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' in France today.Named by police as Stephanie M, the 49-year-old mother-of-two was slashed in the throat by a Tunisian delivery driver at 2.20pm today as she worked in a police station in the leafy Paris suburb of Rambouillet.
French prosecutors have opened a terror probe after the killing which was carried out by the 36-year-old who arrived in France illegally in 2009 before he was given leave to remain in 2019.
Stephanie, an admin worker, who had worked for the police since 1993, had just 'popped out of the station to change the parking disc on her car' when she was pounced on by the attacker in the lobby.
Investigators said the killer had been scouting the site before the attack in broad daylight.
Emmanuel Macron, who was in Chad today for the funeral of their late president Idriss Deby, said in a statement: 'She was a police officer. Stephanie was killed in her Rambouillet police station, on the already damaged land of Yvelines.
'The nation is with her family, her colleagues and the police. In the fight against Islamist terrorism, we will not give up.'
France's counter-terrorism unit has taken over the investigation into the killing.
Francois Bersani, a police union official, said the attacker slipped into the building before shouting 'Allahu Akbar', meaning
The attacker was not previously known to police or anti-terrorist authorities and had recently moved to Rambouillet having previously lived in the Val-de-Marne.
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The attack in Rambouillet comes after another cop shoppe in the same suburb of Yvelines, in the commune of Trappes, was attacked for two straight hours on Thursday night by a mob of around forty people.
The attackers used garbage bins as shields and fired at least fifty mortar fireworks, while coppers responded with fifty or so tear gas canisters and other non-lethal measures. Despite the damage and length of the attack, no arrests were made by police.
Francois Bersani, a delegate of the SGP police union, claimed that the attack is just one of 48 incidents of urban violence in the Yvelines department in the last week alone.
"We noted thirteen incidents of urban violence last night in the Yvelines which are added to the 48 incidents of the past week," Bersani said.
Yvelines is also the department where the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty took place in October of last year. Paty was murdered by a radical Islamic Chechen refugee after showing cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed to his class.
| That’d be Abdullakh Anzorov, the 18 year old petty criminal whose refugee status was renewed by France shortly before events instead of being revoked for cause. He sent video of the beheading to a Russian-speaking jihadi in Idlib, possibly to someone connected to his half sister, who’s been in Syria with ISIS since 2014. |
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