Victims of Paris shootings laid to rest in Paris, Jerusalem

The three police officers killed in last week’s attacks were honoured by French president François Hollande at a sombre and emotional ceremony at the Prefecture de Police in Paris on Tuesday.

Hollande and prime minister Manuel Valls met members of the victims’ families before the ceremony in the Cour d’Honneur of the prefecture. The officers were awarded posthumous Légion d’honneur.

Lt Franck Brinsolaro, 49, was a protection officer assigned to the Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb. Ahmed Merabet, 40, was gunned down outside the magazine offices as gunmen Saïd and Chérif Kouachi made their escape on Wednesday.

Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 26, was shot by the Kouachis’ accomplice Amély Coulibaly after the trainee officer was called to a car accident in the Montrouge area of Paris with two other colleagues. The Kouachis and Coulibaly were subsequently killed by police.

The ceremony came as four Jewish victims of the attack on a kosher supermarket were buried in Jerusalem.

In Israel, thousands of people gathered at a ceremony held in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuchot cemetery to honor the four victims who were killed by another Islamist gunman at a kosher supermarket in Paris last week. The funerals were attended by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.

The bodies of four Jewish victims of the Paris terrorist attack arrived in Israel for burial on Tuesday morning. Yoav Hattab, 21, Yohan Cohen, 20 Philippe Braham, 40, and Francois-Michel Saada, 64, were taken to the cemetery at Givat Shaul on the outskirts of Jerusalem where the French minister, Ségolène Royal, posthumously awarded the four men France’s highest honour – the Légion d’honneur – and said any blow against Jews was a blow against the French republic.