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Associated Press

A man fatally stabbed a police administrative worker as she walked into a police station in a Paris commuter town on Friday, and President Emmanuel Macron said France had again been the victim of a terrorist attack.
The attacker stabbed the woman in the throat, two security sources said.
Macron identified the victim as “Stephanie” and said the nation stood by her family’s side.
“We will stop at nothing in our resolute fight against Islamist terrorism,” Macron tweeted from his presidential plane as he flew back from Chad.

The attacker was shot dead by police officers.
France’s anti-terror prosecutor said he was leading the investigation because the assailant had previously scouted out the site and because of what he said during the attack.
A judicial source close to the investigation said the attacker had shouted “Allahu akbar [God is great]”.
The attacker was a Tunisian national living in France on legitimate papers, the security officials said. BFM TV reported that he had lived in France illegally before obtaining a residency card, which was due to expire later this year.
He was not previously known to France’s intelligence agencies, a third security source added.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex said France had lost an “everyday heroine” to an act of infinite cowardice.
The police station was located on a leafy residential street in Rambouillet, a middle-class town about 50km (31 miles) southwest of Paris.
The victim had two daughters, said Michel Camboulives, whose partner was a colleague and close friend of the victim. He said his partner described her as an adorable woman.
“I don’t know how such things happen here,” Camboulives said. “I mean, we’re in France.”


“My partner’s just in pieces. This was her best friend. She couldn’t speak on the phone … She was saying: ‘It could have been me, or it ought to have been me’.”
France has seen several attacks by Islamist militants or Islamist-inspired individuals in recent years that have killed about 250 people.
Friday’s attack came six months after a Chechen teenager beheaded a schoolteacher in Conflans, another Paris satellite town.
Macron has expressed increasing concern over radicalisation – often non-violent – within Muslim communities, warning that Islamist separatism is threatening to take control in some areas.
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He has called for an “enlightened Islam” in France, saying Islam and radical Islamism must not be conflated.
Tackling religious extremism, domestic security and notions of French identity are likely to be important issues in next year’s presidential election.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right and the strongest challenger to Macron’s re-election bid, said the police needed more protection.
“Support the police, expel illegal immigrants, eradicate Islamism,” she tweeted. 


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Attacker shot dead after fatally stabbing French police employee near Paris

Police officers secure the area where an attacker stabbed a female police administrative worker, in Rambouillet, near Paris. Photo: Reuters

Police officers secure the area where an attacker stabbed a female police administrative worker in Rambouillet near Paris. Photo: Reuters

Officers investigate near the entrance of the police station in Rambouillet, France, on Friday after a fatal knife attack. Photo: EPA-EFE

French police forces conduct a search at the house of a Tunisian suspect in a fatal stabbing in Rambouillet on Friday. Photo: AFP

Paris knife attacker was not on watch list for Islamic radicalisation, France says

Security officers stand guard near the site of the stabbing in Paris. Photo: AFP

An armed French soldier (background) stands guard as policemen secure the area after several people were injured near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack by a man wielding a knife in the capital Paris on September 25, 2020. - Four people were injured, two seriously, in a knife attack in Paris on September 25, 2020, near the former offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a source close to the investigation told AFP. Two of the victims were in a critical condition, the Paris police department said, adding two suspects were on the run. The stabbing came as a trial was underway in the capital for alleged accomplices of the authors of the January 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly that claimed 12 lives. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

French Prime Minister Jean Castex, center, speaks to the press next to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, right, and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and Anti-terrorism state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard in the vicinity of where several people were injured near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack by a man wielding a knife in Paris on Sept. 25, 2020. (Raphael Lafargue/Abaca Press/TNS)

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Flowers and candles are laid at the entrance of a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris, after a teacher was decapitated. Photo: AFP

French police officers stand as adults and children gather in front of flowers displayed at the entrance of a middle school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, 30kms northwest of Paris, on October 17, 2020, after a teacher was decapitated by an attacker who has been shot dead by policemen. - The man suspected of beheading on October 16 ,2020 a French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the prophet Mohammed was an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, a judicial source said on October 17. Five more people have been detained over the murder on October 16 ,2020 outside Paris, including the parents of a child at the school where the teacher was working, bringing to nine the total number currently under arrest, said the source, who asked not to be named. The attack happened at around 5 pm (1500 GMT) near a school in Conflans Saint-Honorine, a western suburb of the French capital. The man who was decapitated was a history teacher who had rec

French police station pounded by fireworks, ‘mortar shots’ in attack linked to drug gangs

A screengrab of a Twitter video shows fireworks exploding outside the police station of Champigny-sur-Marne on Saturday night. Photo: Twitter @LeCapricieux94 / AFP

A picture shows the broken windshield of a car as police officers stand outside the police station of Champigny-sur-Marne, outside Paris, on October 11, 2020, the morning after the station was attacked by around 40 people launching fireworks. - Around 40 people staged an hour-long fireworks attack against a police station outside around 12 kilometres (8 miles) east of the French capital early on October 11, authorities said, the latest in a string of incidents targeting security forces in recent months. The station's entrance and several police vehicles were damaged but nobody was injured during the raid launched just before midnight. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)

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Macron identifies the victim as “Stephanie” and vows to “stop at nothing” in fight against terrorism
The assailant was a Tunisian national living in France and had previously scouted out the site



Macron identifies the victim as “Stephanie” and vows to “stop at nothing” in fight against terrorism.


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