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The official killed Friday was a 49-year-old administrative employee who worked in the station for the national police service, a spokesperson told The Associated Press.
Police shot and killed the attacker at the scene, authorities said.
Francois Bersani, the Secretary of SGP Police Force, said, With the first elements we have, it s becoming clear it s a terrorist act targeting a police officer.
Bersani said the style of the attack is a well-known signature of previous terror acts.
French media reports identified the suspect as a 37-year-old French resident with no criminal record or record of radicalization.
A French judicial official said the suspect was born in Tunisia and that witnesses heard him say “Allahu akbar, Arabic for God is great,” during the attack.
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Lost in translation: Afghan interpreters fear for future after US troops’ exit
With Washington’s planned departure from Afghanistan on Sept. 11, dozens fear the Taliban will murder them once forces leave
Updated 26 April 2021
April 26, 2021 01:00
KABUL: It was in late 2013 when Ahmad Fatah says he openly worked as a translator for the US military and often accompanied the troops during patrols and raids on suspected Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province.
Several residents of Logar, Fatah’s birthplace, knew about his occupation too when he, along with thousands of other Afghan interpreters, assisted and protected American troops during their fight against the Taliban for decades after the September 11, 2001 attacks, treating their safety as an afterthought and living in fear of the insurgent group who consider them traitors or collaborators.
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French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in an anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris.
French police killed the 37-year-old Tunisian attacker shortly after he stabbed the unarmed administrative employee on Friday at the entrance of her police station in the town of Rambouillet.
In a news conference on Sunday, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said police are questioning a cousin of the suspect.
The suspect’s father, a couple who had provided him with an address for mail and other uses, and another cousin were also being questioned, Ricard said.