Family of French policeman killed decries images of slaying

The family of a French Muslim police officer killed in a massacre has expressed anger at the viral spread of images of his death.

The family of a French Muslim police officer killed in a massacre has expressed anger at the viral spread of images of his death.

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Ahmet Merabet was killed at an attack on newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday by two men linked to al-Qaida in Yemen.

His partner described seeing the images on television in a restaurant without realizing it was him. Video taken by an onlooker that surfaced on the Internet shows what appears to be a wounded Merabet on the pavement raising a hand as though appealing for mercy before he was fatally shot in the head.

A brother of Merabet, in tears, made an appeal to "all the racists, Islamophobes, anti-Semites" to stop attacking innocent people. He spoke in footage shown on i-Tele television, which did not identify the speakers by name.