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The case against the alleged accomplices in the terrorist killing of Fr. Jacques Hamel is being heard in Paris.
Surviving members of an Islamist terror unit believed responsible for the murder of French priest Jacques Hamel five years ago got underway in Paris on Monday.
Fr. Hamel’s throat was slit in the midst of a hostage situation in a church near Rouen, in the north of France, during a weekday morning Mass. The two assailants were fatally shot by police at the scene, but a man who is believed to be the “instigator” for the attack and three accomplices are before a Paris court this week.
The “instigator,” however, is thought to have been killed in a coalition attack in Iraq, but since his death has not officially been confirmed, he is being tried “in absentia.”
Continued below.
https://aleteia.org/2022/02/14/trial-begins-over-2016-jihadist-murder-of-french-priest/
Surviving members of an Islamist terror unit believed responsible for the murder of French priest Jacques Hamel five years ago got underway in Paris on Monday.
Fr. Hamel’s throat was slit in the midst of a hostage situation in a church near Rouen, in the north of France, during a weekday morning Mass. The two assailants were fatally shot by police at the scene, but a man who is believed to be the “instigator” for the attack and three accomplices are before a Paris court this week.
The “instigator,” however, is thought to have been killed in a coalition attack in Iraq, but since his death has not officially been confirmed, he is being tried “in absentia.”
Continued below.
https://aleteia.org/2022/02/14/trial-begins-over-2016-jihadist-murder-of-french-priest/
