Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27, was killed when she was was on patrol as a municipal police officer in the suburb of Montrouge in Paris

The police officer was shot in the head by the attacker  when she attended a reported traffic accident. The killer then escaped in a Renault Clio. Police sources say he wore a bullet-proof vest and was carrying a handgun and assault rifle.

The officer, who was originally from Martinique, died on the scene.

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On 8 January, a man named Amedy Coulibaly, 32, shot and killed municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge, a southern suburb of Paris. An unnamed street sweeper was also severely wounded in the attack. Press sources have stated that Coulibaly was from the same jihadist group as the gunmen who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack, and French police have said there is a connection between both incidents. An early source stated that Coulibaly "was friends of both of" the Kouachi brothers.

Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers were known members of the "Buttes Chaumont Terror Group". The name comes from the nearby Parc des Buttes Chaumont, where they often met and did physical training with other French-Algerian extremists. Coulibaly is believed to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, and had expressed a desire to fight in either Iraq or Syria.