(AFP) The French government held an emergency meeting Saturday after a Tunisian man stabbed a police employee to death near Paris in a suspected Islamist attack as investigators questioned three people linked to the assailant.
The murder on Friday at a police station in Rambouillet, a commuter town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Paris, revived the trauma of a spate of deadly Islamist attacks in recent years.
The victim was a 49-year-old woman named as Stephanie M., a police administrative assistant and mother of two teenage girls. She was stabbed twice in the throat at the entrance of the station.
Her alleged 36-year-old attacker Jamel Gorchene was shot and killed by an officer at the scene. He was unknown to the police and intelligence services.
