The French police officer who was killed in an April terror attack on the Champs-Élysées was posthumously married to his partner in an unusual ceremony, French media reported Tuesday, reports the Toronto Star.
The Paris newspaper Le Parisien said the wedding between Xavier Jugelé and his partner Étienne Cardiles happened in Paris on Tuesday.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former French president François Hollande attended the private wedding, Le Parisien reported.
France is one of the few countries in the world where posthumous marriage is legal.
Jugelé was one of three police officers shot on Paris’s famous boulevard in the April 20 attack, which came three days before the first round of France’s presidential election. The attack, which was carried out with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, was claimed by Daesh, also known as ISIS and ISIL.
Jugelé, who would have turned 38 in May, was the sole officer to die in the attack. He was one of the officers who raced to the Bataclan concert hall the night three armed men with suicide bombs stormed a show and slaughtered 90 people on Nov. 13, 2015.
He returned to the concert venue for its reopening a year later with a concert by Sting, telling People magazine at the time how happy he was to be here “to celebrate life. To say no to terrorists.”