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Charlie Hebdo victims laid to rest

AFP

AFP

Three police officers killed by terrorists in the Charlie Hebdo attack have been laid to rest, with French President Francois Hollande vowing the country will “never yield” to terror.

Officers Franck Brinsolaro and Ahmed Merabet were killed during the attack on the newspaper, while Clarissa Jean-Philippe was gunned down the following day.

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Mr Hollande awarded the fallen officers with the country’s highest decoration, the Legion d’honneur, before placing them on the coffins which were draped with French flags.

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Jewish mourners at the funeral in Israel. Photo: Getty

“Our great and beautiful France will never break, will never yield, never bend,” he said in a ceremony at the Paris police headquarters on Tuesday.

“They died so that we could live in freedom.”

Victims of the second attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris were also laid to rest in Jerusalem in an emotional ceremony with tight security.

Soldiers stood guard as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the victims’ families and hundreds of other mourners who had travelled from France.

“When I hugged you in Paris, I said to you that I know your hurt — the hurt of fathers, of parents, boys and girls, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who have lost their dearest,” he said.

“And so, the people of Israel, the state of Israel, hug you with love in this dark day when four souls came to Jerusalem … the final resting place of Philippe, Yohan, Yoav and François-Michel.”

“May their souls rest in peace.”

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