A lady has been stabbed to demise on the entrance of a police station in France.
The assault happened in Rambouillet, a rich commuter city round 35 miles southwest of Paris.
The 49-year-old, thought to have been an administrator on the station, was attacked as she popped exterior to increase the time on her parking area, stated Valerie Pecresse, president of the Paris area.
Authorities stated the attacker was shot and killed by cops on the scene.
French media reported that the attacker was a 37-year-old French resident who was born in Tunisia and had no prison document or historical past or radicalisation.
While his motives are unknown, anti-terror prosecutors have taken over the investigation.
Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard instructed reporters his workplace is dealing with the probe as a result of the attacker had staked out the station forward of time, was heard saying ‘Allahu akbar’ throughout the assault and had focused a police official.
A judicial official stated police searched the attacker’s residence, additionally in Rambouillet, and detained three folks in his entourage.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex rushed to the scene, the place he pledged the federal government’s ‘determination to fight terrorism in all its forms’.
The assault happened about 750 yards from a former royal chateau that’s generally used for worldwide peace negotiations.
Security cordons ringed the realm after the stabbing.
Masked police workers clustered exterior the station, whereas uniformed officers in bulletproof vests stood watch across the neighborhood.
Francois Bersani, a police union official on the scene, stated: ‘There is a sort of well-known signature on this attack, an attack with a knife, on the throat, against a woman police officer in a police building.’
The incident follows the deadly stabbing of 4 folks within the headquarters of the Paris police drive in 2019, and comes six months after an Islamist teenager beheaded a faculty instructor in the identical administrative division of France.
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