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The
attacker, a French resident of Tunisian origin, stabbed the
police administrative worker, a mother of two, at a police
station in Rambouillet, just south of Paris. The attacker was
shot dead by police.
Authorities have not given a motive for the killing. President
Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France had been the victim of a
terrorist attack.
"Once again, the Republic has been attacked. Once again, the
French state has been threatened. We will not let this go by,"
Castex said on Saturday, speaking to reporters from the southern
city of Toulouse.
BFM TV said Castex would hold a meeting later on Saturday in
Paris with other government ministers.
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said he was leading the
investigation because the assailant had previously scouted out
the site and because of what he said during the attack.
A judicial source close to the investigation said the attacker
had shouted "Allahu Akbar", or "God is greatest".
There have been several attacks by Islamist militants in recent
years in France
On Nov. 13, 2015, bombings and shootings at the Bataclan theatre
and other sites around Paris killed 130 people, and in July 2016
an Islamist militant drove a truck through a crowd celebrating
Bastille Day in Nice, killing 86.
Last October, a French schoolteacher was beheaded in Conflans,
another commuter suburb near Paris, by a Chechen teenager who
was then shot dead by police.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Caroline Pailliez; Editing by
Jason Neely and Clelia Oziel)
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