Clarissa Jean-Philippe (26)

At around 8.20am on Thursday, while media attention was focused on the Charlie Hebdo attack, a man armed with a Kalashnikov machine gun and wearing bullet-proof waistcoat opened fire on the municipal police officers present at the scene. Clarissa was responding to a minor traffic accident. She was shot several times, including once in the neck. She was not armed with a gun, but was wearing a bullet-proof waistcoat that was of no use to her. She was quickly attended to by the emergency services, but her prognosis was immediately compromised. She succumbed to her injuries a few minutes after the shots were fired.
A Montrouge road worker was also seriously injured in the shooting.

This tragedy comes less than 24 hours after the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 2 national police officers, Ahmed Merabet and Franck Brinsolaro, were killed.