French President Francois Hollande has
pledged that his country will "never yield" to
"terror" while honouring three police officers
killed during the attack on the Charlie
Hebdo satirical newspaper.
He pinned France's highest decoration, the
Legion of Honour, on coffins draped in flag of
France in Paris on Tuesday as the
Marseillaise anthem rang out.
"Our great and beautiful France will never
break, will never yield, never bend" in the face
of the threat that is "still there, inside and
outside" the country, Hollande said.
Seventeen people, including journalists and
police officers, died in the assault on Charlie
Hebdo staff on Wednesday and in a bloody
hostage situation at a Jewish supermarket
two days later.
Franck Brinsolaro, 49 and Ahmed Merabet, 40,
were killed during the attack on Charlie
Hebdo .
The third police officer, Clarissa Jean-Philippe,
26, originally from the French Caribbean
island of Martinique, was shot the next day
when she arrived on the scene of a car
accident in in the southern suburb of
Montrouge.
Four Jewish victims of the kosher
supermarket siege were buried in Israel on
Tuesday.
Thousands of mourners gathered at a
cemetery in Jerusalem for the funeral of Yoav
Hattab, 22, Philippe Braham, 45, Yohan Cohen,
23, and Francois-Michel Saada, 64, who were
killed on Friday.
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