(Reuters) French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute in a nationally televised ceremony on Friday to an administrative police worker stabbed to death last week at a police station, saying she was [a] victim of “Islamist terrorism.”
The killing of Stephanie Monferme, a 49-year-old mother of three, by a Tunisian national who was then shot dead by police was the latest in a string of Islamist-inspired attacks on French soil in recent years.
France faces a presidential election next year where issues such as militant Islam, immigration and violent crime are expected to dominate the agenda.
“Stephanie was murdered because she represented the French police and the authority of the state. She was murdered because she served France,” Castex told a ceremony attended by top government and police officials.
