French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday that a stabbing attack on a policewoman in the Yvelines department's Rambouillet commune located not far from Paris is a new terrorist act
PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd April, 2021) French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday that a stabbing attack on a policewoman in the Yvelines department's Rambouillet commune located not far from Paris is a new terrorist act.
"Once again, the Yvelines department has undergone the severe test of a terrorist attack," Castex said after he arrived in a police station in Rambouillet.
The 49-year-old police officer was stabbed dead near the police station at around 2:30 p.m. (12:30 GMT). The attacker, a 36-year-old man of Tunisian origin, was detained by law enforcement officers, who shot him on the spot, and later succumbed to his injuries.
