France awards top honour to 3 cops slain in terror attacks

January 13, 2015 17:03

French President Francois Hollande awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour, France's top award, posthumously to three police officers that were killed in last week's heinous attacks.

Hollande eulogised three slain police officers -- Ahmed Merabet, Franck Brinsolaro and Clarissa Jean-Philippe and awarded each with the Legion d'Honeur (National Order of Merit), placing a medal on each coffin.

Merabet was a Muslim policeman killed while trying to pursue the assailants from the Charlie Hebdo attack, which left 12 people dead.

Brinsolaro worked as a protection officer for the Charlie Hebdo's editor, Stephane Charbonnier, who was also killed and Jean-Philippe was killed by a gunman suspected in last week's terror attacks. She and her partner were responding to a traffic accident when she was gunned down.

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