- Title: French anti-terror police opens investigation into Rambouillet stabbing
- Date: 23rd April 2021
- Summary: NICE, FRANCE (FILE - OCTOBER 29, 2020) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) POLICE OFFICERS OUTSIDE NOTRE DAME CHURCH, AUDIO OF GUNFIRE NICE, FRANCE (FILE - OCTOBER 29, 2020) (ORIGINALLY FILMED IN PORTRAIT) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) TOP VIEW OF VEHICLES ON ROAD, EMERGENCY PERSONNEL / INJURED PERSON BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHER PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - JANUARY 7, 2015) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VIEW FROM ROOFTOP OF TWO GUNMEN BESIDE BLACK CAR, ONE SHOUTING (French): "We have avenged the Prophet Mohammad, we have avenged the Prophet Mohammad, we have avenged the Prophet Mohammad. (indistinct)."/ GUNMEN PLACING WEAPONS ON TOP OF CAR CAR FURTHER DOWN STREET CONFRONTED BY ONCOMING POLICE CAR WITH LIGHTS FLASHING / GUNMEN GETTING OUT / AUDIO OF GUNFIRE AS THEY SEEM TO SHOOT AT POLICE CAR / POLICE CAR REVERSING BACK DOWN THE STREET PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - JANUARY 7, 2015) (REUTERS) PARAMEDICS TAKING INJURED MAN ON STRETCHER PARAMEDICS TAKING INJURED MAN INTO AMBULANCE BULLET HOLE IN WINDOW VARIOUS OF BULLET MARKS / HOLES ON CAR SHATTERED WINDOW, FROM BULLET IMPACT POLICE AND RESCUE AUTHORITIES ON SEEN PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - JANUARY 7, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MURAL SHOWING TIGNOUS, CHARB AND CABU, WOLINSKI, HONORE AND OTHER JOURNALISTS KILLED IN ATTACK PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - NOVEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF POLICE DURING ASSAULT AT BATACLAN CONCERT HALL, EXPLOSIONS AND GUNSHOTS HEARD SURVIVORS WALKING OUTSIDE IN THERMAL BLANKETS WITH FIRE TRUCKS IN BACKGROUND SPECIAL POLICE FORCE (BRI) WEARING BLACK MASKS AND WALKING WITH GUNS VARIOUS OF INJURED BEING CARRIED OUT OF CONCERT HALL PARIS, FRANCE (FILE - NOVEMBER 14, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LE CARILLON RESTAURANT, THE SITE OF ONE OF SHOOTINGS / FLOWERS AND CANDLES AT SCENE NICE, FRANCE (FILE - JULY 14, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HELICOPTER LANDING ON WATERFRONT, VICTIM BEING TREATED NICE, FRANCE (FILE - JULY 14, 2016) (REUTERS) INJURED MAN BEING WHEELED AWAY ON STRETCHER INJURED PERSON TAKEN AWAY ON STRETCHER, AMBULANCE FLASHING LIGHTS
- Embargoed: 7th May 2021 16:09
- Keywords: France Rambouillet knife attack police stabbing
- Location: RAMBOUILLET, PARIS, CONFLANS-SAINT-HONORINE AND NICE, FRANCE
- City: RAMBOUILLET, PARIS, CONFLANS-SAINT-HONORINE AND NICE, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,Europe
- Reuters ID: LVA005E9QUH53
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:The French anti-terror police said on Friday (April 23) it had opened an investigation into the deadly stabbing of a female police administrative worker at the entrance to a police station in Rambouillet, a middle-class commuter town outside Paris.
Paris region president Valerie Pecresse said that terrorism could not be ruled out as a motive. Another official said separately that France's anti-terror prosecutor had not yet decided to lead the investigation. The assailant was shot dead by police officers, one of the two security sources said.
The attacker was of Tunisian nationality and residing in France on legitimate papers, and there was no immediate indication he had cried any Islamist or Islamic slogans, a security official said.
He was not previously known to France's security agencies, a third security source added. France has suffered a wave of attacks by Islamist militants or Islamist-inspired individuals in recent years that have killed about 250 people.
Friday's attack was six months after an Islamist teenager beheaded a school teacher in Conflans, another Paris satellite town. Tackling religious extremism, domestic security and notions of French identity are likely to be important issues in next year’s presidential election.
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