ATTACK VICTIMS LAID TO REST, SLAIN OFFICERS HONORED

Paris, 23 Rabi’ul Awwal 1436/14 January 2015 (MINA) – French President Francois Hollande has pledged that his country will never yield to terror while honouring three police officers killed during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper.

He pinned France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honour, on coffins draped in flag of France in Paris on Tuesday (13/1) as the Marseillaise anthem rang out. Muslim Village quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

“Our great and beautiful France will never break, will never yield, never bend” in the face of the threat that is “still there, inside and outside” the country, Hollande said.

Seventeen people, including journalists and police officers, died in the assault on Charlie Hebdo staff on Wednesday and in a bloody hostage situation at a Jewish supermarket two days later.

Franck Brinsolaro (49) and Ahmed Merabet (40), were killed during the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

The third police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe (26), originally from the French Caribbean island of Martinique, was shot the next day when she arrived on the scene of a car accident in in the southern suburb of Montrouge.

Four Jewish victims of the kosher supermarket siege were buried in Israel on Tuesday.

Thousands of mourners gathered at a cemetery in Jerusalem for the funeral of Yoav Hattab (22), Philippe Braham (45), Yohan Cohen (23) and Francois-Michel Saada (64), who were killed on Friday. (T/P006/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)