Brave girl cop Clarissa’s mum tells of heartbreak

EXCLUSIVE THE distraught mum of a policewoman murdered in the Paris terror atrocities has told family of her devastation.

Rookie cop Clarissa JeanPhilippe, 26, was shot dead when she stopped supermarket killer Ahmedy Coulibaly’s car.

Mum Marie- Louise will b bury her daughter today on her Caribbean home island o of Martinique.

Clarissa’s aunt Luciane Groffier sa said her sister was still struggling to come to terms with her d daughter’s death.

She said: “Our overwhelming feeling is devastation and sadness. Clarissa was a beautiful, intelligent woman who had worked so hard to become an officer. We are so proud of her and her death is not in vain.

“She died fulfilling what she wanted to do in her life – this was her vocation.

“It’s so important that we continue to live our lives to the full – that is the best tribute we can give to Clarissa and the others who died – the police officers and the journalists.”

Clarissa moved to mainland France eight years ago.

She was a security officer at a hospital before landing her dream job with police.

Marie-Louise was comforted by French President Francois Hollande during a national tribute ceremony last week, who posthumously awarded France’s highest bravery medal the Legion d’Honneur to her daughter. DAVID Cameron today ramps up the rhetoric against al-Qaeda and IS on American TV.

In a CBS interview due to be screened this morning, the PM brands Islamist terrorism as “a poisonous death cult” based on a “perversion of one of the world’s major religions”.