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		</div><p>French authorities have detained a fifth person in an anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official was fatally stabbed at a police station outside Paris.</p>
<p>French police killed the 37-year-old Tunisian attacker shortly after he stabbed the unarmed administrative employee on Friday at the entrance of her police station in the town of Rambouillet.</p>
<p>At a news conference, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said police are questioning a cousin of the suspect.</p>
<p>The suspect’s father, a couple who had provided him with an address for mail and other administration, and another cousin were also being questioned, Mr Ricard said.</p>
<p>The victim, a National Police employee, had left the station to extend her time on a parking meter and was followed into the entry area and stabbed by the attacker.</p>
<p>He was then shot dead by a police officer.</p>
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<p>The attacker, identified by authorities as Jamel G, entered France illegally in 2009 and was given residency papers at the end of 2019, Mr Ricard said.</p>
<p>He was a practising Muslim according to his father, Mr Ricard added.</p>
<p>He had staked out the police station ahead of time and listened to religious songs inciting “jihad” just before the attack, according to evidence found on his mobile phone.</p>
<p>Witnesses heard him say “Allahu akbar!”, Arabic for God is great, during the attack, he said.</p>
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<p>The man had no criminal record or evidence of radicalisation, Mr Ricard said.</p>
<p>He went to psychiatric consultations in Rambouillet on February 19 and February 23 yet his condition involved no need for hospital admission or treatment, according to Mr Ricard.</p>
<p>He then travelled to Tunisia from February 25 to March 13.</p>
<p>Mr Ricard stressed that investigations are taking place to determine whether people helped or inspired the attacker, and French officials are working in “close co-ordination” with Tunisian judicial authorities.</p>
<p>Tunisia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry offered its condolences to the victim’s family, the French government and people and said Tunisia expresses its “total condemnation of extremism and terrorism”.</p>
<p>Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi condemned the “cowardly attack” and promised Tunisia’s “full solidarity” with France.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, French interior minister Gerald Darmanin will present a new counter-terrorism and intelligence bill in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.</p>
<p>It will extend measures enabling authorities to shut down places of worship and better monitor those convicted of terrorism when they get out of prison.</p>
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