French President Hollande holds a medal in front of the coffin of late police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe during a national tribute at the Paris Prefecture for the three police officers killed during last week's attacks by Islamic militants.

In a solemn ceremony this morning, Mr Hollande saluted the "courage, the bravery, the dignity" of Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet and Clarissa Jean-Philippe, the three police officers slain on the 7th and 8th of January.

"They died so that we can live free," he told the gathered mourners.

He also thanked the world leaders and French people who marched in their millions following the killings: "Last Friday, France showed its strength in the face of fanatics; it demonstrated its unity in the face of those who would divide it; and its solidarity towards the victims."

Below, people carry the coffin of Police officer Ahmed Merabet, covered with a French flag, during funerals at the Muslim cemetery in Bobigny, outside Paris.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (below far right) delivers a speech near the covered bodies of Yohan Cohen (L), Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham and Francois-Michel Saada, victims of Friday's attack on a Paris grocery, during their joint funeral in Jerusalem today. The bodies of four French Jews killed in an attack on a Paris kosher grocery have been flown to Israel for burial in Jerusalem.

 

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