French Leaders Condemn Terrorist Attack After Policewoman Stabbed to Death

French police officials block off a street after a female police employee was stabbed to death by a Tunisian man at a police station in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, on April 23, 2021. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images

PARIS—The killing of a female police employee in a Paris commuter town on Friday was an attack on the French Republic, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Saturday.

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.