(CNN) France put its divisive presidential election on pause to honor Xavier Jugelé, the 37-year-old policeman who was killed in a terrorist attack in Paris last week.

Jugelé's husband, Etienne Cardiles, delivered a moving eulogy to a crowd of hundreds of officials, officers, and security forces, who had gathered to pay their respects in a ceremony on Tuesday at police headquarters in Paris.

"When the first messages were issued informing Parisians that a serious event was taking place on the Champs-Élysées, and that a policeman had lost his life, a little voice inside told me that it was you," Cardiles said.

French police officers carry Jugelé's flag-draped casket.

Addressing Jugelé's killer, Cardiles said: "You will not have my hatred."

Cardiles borrowed the words from Antoine Leiris , whose wife was among at least 130 people killed in the November 2015 attack on Paris' Bataclan music hall.

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