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Added on the 26/07/2016 14:32:49 - Copyright : Reuters EN
A pair of jihadists murdered a parish priest in northern France on Tuesday, despite one of the attackers reportedly being under tight surveillance.
Two attackers killed a priest with a knife and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police. Nathan Frandino reports.
Roseline Hamel, the sister of a priest murdered in France, the Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun and lawyers for the civil parties and the defence leave the courtroom at the special assize court in Paris pending the verdict in the trial of the murder of Father Hamel, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Hamel, 85, was giving Mass in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in northern France, on July 26, 2016 when he was killed by Islamist assailants. IMAGES
The sister of Father Hamel, murdered in 2016 in a church on the outskirts of Rouen, a survivor of the attack, Guy Coponet, and the archbishop of Rouen, Dominique Lebrun, arrive at the trial in Paris. IMAGES
The coffin of Lola, the 12-year-old schoolgirl who was murdered and found dead in a trunk in Paris, is carried out of a church in Lillers, in northern France, followed by her relatives. IMAGES