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Rustyeye77

(2,736 posts) Mon Apr 26, 2021, 06:48 AM Apr 2021

Terror investigation launched after police officer stabbed to death in France

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/terror-investigation-launched-after-police-officer-stabbed-death-france-n1265092

A terror investigation has been launched after a knifeman stabbed a female police officer to death in the French town of Rambouillet on Friday, authorities said.

The assailant, identified as a 36-year-old Tunisian national, was immediately “neutralized” by the victim’s fellow officers, who shot him, a police source close to the investigation told NBC News, adding that he died from his injuries. His name was not released.

The victim, aged 49, died from her wounds.

France's National Police named her as Stephanie M. in a tweet, which called her killing "cowardly." As an administrative officer she would not work on the street but in an office.

President Emmanuel Macron also paid tribute to her on Twitter. "In the fight against Islamist terrorism, we will not give up," he wrote.

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There has been a sharp rise in immigrant attacks over the past 6 moths.

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Terror investigation launched after police officer stabbed to death in France (Original Post) Rustyeye77 Apr 2021 OP

"There has been a sharp rise in immigrant attacks over the past 6 months" progree Apr 2021 #1

I read it here before but my subscription to NYT expired. Rustyeye77 Apr 2021 #2

Thanks. I can't read it either ... reached my articles limit. /nt progree Apr 2021 #3

"In the fight against Islamist terrorism, we will not give up," Rustyeye77 Apr 2021 #4

progree

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1. "There has been a sharp rise in immigrant attacks over the past 6 months"

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Mon Apr 26, 2021, 07:09 AM

Apr 2021

On looking at the article some more --

# Two people stabbed and wounded near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo (article dated 9/25/20)
. . . https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/charlie-hebdo-terror-police-investigate-stabbing-near-former-offices-paris-n1241055

# An Islamist teenager beheaded a schoolteacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (article dated 10/16/20)
. . . https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/paris-attack-anti-terror-probe-launched-after-teacher-decapitated-police-n1243755

# Police officer stabbed to death in France (OP article dated 4/23/21).

So it has been kind of busy recently. If scaled up to U.S. population (which is 4.9 X as large as France's) that would be almost 15 such attacks in 7 months.