(Reuters) Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest.”
The police administrative worker, a mother of two, was stabbed in the throat on Friday at the entrance of the police station where she worked in the town of Rambouillet, west of Paris. Her attacker was shot dead by police.
Police held a minute of silence at the entrance to their stations around France in honour of their colleague.
“Rambouillet has lost part of itself and the nation has lost an exceptional woman. We will not yield to this abomination,” Rambouillet mayor Veronique Matillon said at a ceremony.
