A police official who was not authorized to be publicly identified confirmed the officer’s identity to The Associated Press. Despite this, Paris prosecutor François Molins there was “no warning sign” that Lakdim would carry out an extremist attack. Lakdim was killed and two other officers were wounded during the assault, Collomb said, speaking from Trebes. Macron rushed back from an EU summit in Brussels to Paris, where counterterrorism investigators took over the investigation. France has been on high alert since a series of extremist attacks in 2015 and 2016 that killed more than 200 people.

Source: thestar March 23, 2018 11:49 UTC