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France honours police worker stabbed to death near Paris

Stéphanie Monfermé was killed on April 23rd  at her police station in the quiet town of Rambouillet.

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France has held a national ceremony to honour a police official, who was stabbed to death last week in Rambouillet, reports Euronews.

Stéphanie Monfermé was killed last Friday while working inside her police station in the quiet town southwest of Paris.

The suspected assailant was shot and killed by police, after what authorities say was an Islamic extremist attack.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex led Friday's ceremony alongside senior government and police officials.

"Your colleague was assassinated because she was serving her country, because she was in the service of France," Castex said.

Read more of this report from Euronews.