Two men armed with knives who took several hostages in a church in Normandy, have been “neutralized” – to inform the French media. One of the victims is the local priest. French President Francois Hollande said that two attackers were affiliated with the so-called. Islamic state.
According to reports, the public television station France 3, the attackers were holding in the temple priest, two nuns and a few of the faithful. The incident took place this morning in the Roman Catholic church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
From the information the newspaper “Le Figaro” that the priest throat cut, and the other hostages were wounded. On the site of the tragedy they are now the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs Bernard Cazeneuve and French President Francois Hollande. The attack had come in during the Mass.
The priest, whose death has already confirmed the police, called Jacques Hamel. He was ordained in 1958. He used the temple, where he died. He was 86 years.
quoted by AFP French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called the attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray “horror and barbaric attack on the church.”
“France He gave the Church a martyr. Let us pray for this country, for the Church, for World Youth Day. Today I am Normandczykiem! ” – He wrote on Twitter editor-in-chief of TV Republic, Thomas Terlikowski.
The murder of a cleric condemned the Vatican, defining events in France as “barbaric murder”.
| dmc | France 3, AP Television Republic |
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