French Prime Minister Jean Castex awards posthumously Stephanie Monferme, a mother and local police employee, with the Legion of Honour during a remembrance gathering, in Rambouillet near Paris, France April 30, 2021. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS
RAMBOUILLET, France (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute in a nationally televised ceremony on Friday to an administrative police worker stabbed to death last week at a police station, saying she was victim of "Islamist terrorism".
The killing of Stephanie Monferme, a 49-year-old mother of three, by a Tunisian national who was then shot dead by police was the latest in a string of Islamist-inspired attacks on French soil in recent years.
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