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The three French cops killed in last week’s terror rampage were honored in a solemn ceremony in Paris Tuesday as their relatives wept and President François Hollande bestowed on them the Legion of Honor — France’s highest award.

Hollande said Officers Ahmed Merabet, Franck Brinsolaro and Clarissa Jean-Philippe “died so that we could live free” as Merabet’s Muslim mother and hundreds of others tearfully looked on.

“In the name of the French Republic we make you a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur,” he said three times, bowing before the three coffins, each draped in the country’s tricolor flag.

After a moment of silence, a military band played “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem.

The ceremony came as four Jewish victims of the attack on a kosher grocery were buried in Jerusalem.

“This is not how we wanted you to arrive in the Land of Israel. We wanted you alive,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said.

Also Tuesday, France’s lower house of Parliament defiantly approved more French airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.

“France is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

And French authorities were already getting tough with Islamist sympathizers — sentencing one to 10 months in prison after he made drunken threats after Sunday’s unity march.

“Allahu akbar. I f–k the French. I’m going to shred you with a Kalashnikov,” he said.

In Bulgaria, authorities said a man with ties to one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers was in custody.

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