Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "2016 Normandy church attack" in English language version.
These included the Sacre-Couer basilica in Paris, and places of worship including the one in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray targeted today.
Une information confirmée au Figaro par une source policière évoquant un appareil d'enregistrement manié par les terroristes. Les djihadistes ont crié «Vous, les chrétiens, vous nous supprimez».
« Je suis un musulman basé sur les valeurs de miséricorde, de bienveillance (…) Je ne suis pas extrémiste », insiste-t-il, avant de préciser faire deux prières par jour [...] « J'ai envie de reprendre ma vie, de revoir mes amis, de me marier. »
Ms. Hervouët is a convert to Islam, and she, too, wanted to go to Syria, Mr. Molins said. She left for Syria in March last year, but never got there because the Turkish authorities turned her back. Mr. Molins said that she had been betrothed first to the man who killed a police captain and his companion in June in Magnanville near Paris and then to Adel Kermiche
In just the past 13 months, there have been at least four attacks in France using knives, including one instance in which an off-duty police officer and wife were stabbed to death by a man who then filmed himself claiming allegiance to the Islamic State, broadcasting the video on Facebook. In St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a small town in Normandy, a 19-year-old man slit the throat of an elderly priest as he was saying Mass last July. The young man and an accomplice, who were fatally shot by the police, had proclaimed allegiance to the Islamic State just before the murder.
"They recorded themselves," a nun identified as Sister Danielle told BFM-TV as she described the attacks. "They did a sort of sermon around the altar in Arabic.
the priest was forced to his knees and killed when he attempted to resist. Officials said the attackers screamed "Allahu akbar" (God is great) as they slit his throat.
Adel Kermiche, 19, wrote that he met his "spiritual guide" in the prison, where he was being detained for twice trying to travel to Syria, according to police, who reviewed messages he posted on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app. The "sheik," as Kermiche referred to him, "gave him ideas".
