Italy's president condemns Paris police attack
President Sergio Mattarella says Italy not only takes France's side in the fight against extremist violence, "but, above all, in the full and common adhesion to the inalienable principles of freedom that, in democracy, find full and concrete realization at election time." Italy's head of state added that "no form of terrorism" can make European nations "shrink from the firm intention of recognizing, safeguarding and promoting the founding values of our democratic societies." ___ 2 p.m. French president Francois Hollande has visited a police officer who was seriously injured in Thursday's attack on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The president's office said Hollande went to the Hospital Georges-Pompidou with Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and Interior Minister Matthias Fekl. The officer was one of two wounded in the attack, along with a German tourist. One police officer was killed before officers shot and killed the