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Second man arrested over French priest’s murder
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Police in southwest La Belle France enjuggedPlease don't kill me! a 21-year-old man in connection with the bad boy killing of a priest in a Normandy church last month, judicial sources said Wednesday. The man arrested Monday in the Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... area is the second to be held in connection with the murder of 85-year-old Jacques Hamel, whose throat was slit in front of worshippers while he was celebrating mass in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on July 26. A police source said he had been in contact with the holy man’s killers, Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS. The pair, both aged 19, were rubbed out by police after a hostage drama in which a worshipper was seriously maimed. The grisly attack - the first committed in the name of ISIS against a church in the West - came less than two weeks after a Tunisian ploughed a 19-tonne truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the Riviera city of Nice, killing 85 people and wounding more than 300. A cousin of Petitjean named as Farid K. was remanded in jug on July 31 on charges of "criminal association in connection with terrorism". The public prosecutor said the 30-year-old "was fully aware of his cousin’s imminent violent action, even if he did not know the precise place or day." Hamel’s killing, which follows a string of attacks in La Belle France over the past 18 months, has raised questions about security failures. Kermiche, who lived near the church, wore an electronic tag and was allowed to leave home on weekday mornings under his house arrest terms. He met Petitjean through the encrypted messaging app Telegram. Investigators have questioned several people over the killers’ links with groups recruiting for jihad in Syria. A 20-year-old man has been charged with trying to travel to Syria with Petitjean in June. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-11 |
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