France authorities were detained on Sunday as part of an investigation into a fifth person for the arrest of a police officer at a police station in Rambouillet on Friday.
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The attacker, a 37-year-old Tunisian man, was shot dead by police shortly after the attack.
An investigation into the murder of terrorism as a possible motive for the attack has been launched.
As part of the investigation, police arrested the assailant’s father, two cousins and a couple who provided him with an address for mail in an attempt to find out possible accomplices and motives.
Counter-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Richter confirmed on Sunday that the attacker had shouted “Allah Akbar” (“Allah is great”).
The President of France Emanuels makrons stated on Twitter that France would never give up the fight against Islamic terrorism.
The 49-year-old police officer and mother of two returned from a lunch break when she was attacked and struck in the neck. Shortly afterwards, the woman died of her injuries.
The attacker arrived in France illegally in 2009, but then obtained a residence permit, a source told police. He had arrived recently in Rambouillet, about 60 kilometers from Paris. The man had not previously come to the attention of the police.
Over the past year, there have been a number of attacks in France that have raised concerns about the spread of radical Islam in France and immigration.
In September, a Pakistani with a butcher knife injured two people in Paris near the former office of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. The magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which is considered an insult in much of the Islamic world.
On October 16, a new Chechen immigrant born in Moscow murdered Samuel Pati, a Parisian suburban teacher, who had shown cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to students in a free speech class.
On October 29, a knife armed with a knife in Nice killed three people in the Basilica of Our Lady. One victim had his throat cut.
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