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2022-02-15 Europe
Four go on trial over jihadist murder of 85-year-old French priest
[IsraelTimes] Attackers slit Father Jacques Hamel’s throat in his church in 2016, as La Belle France was on high alert over jihadist attacks following the Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
massacre
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Four alleged accomplices
...Jean-Philippe Jean Louis, Farid Khelil, Yassine Sebaihia, and ISIS recruiter Rachid Kassim - who was probably airstruck in Mosul after the events in question...
in the murder of an 85-year-old French priest go on trial in Gay Paree on Monday after years of investigations into one of the most grisly jihadist attacks that have rocked La Belle France in recent years.

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Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit at the foot of the altar while celebrating mass on July 26, 2016, at his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a working-class suburb of Rouen in northwest La Belle France.

The two 19-year-old assailants, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, also seriously injured one of the worshipers they took hostage before being shot and killed by police as they tried to leave the church.

They claimed in a video to be members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which later called them its "soldiers" retaliating for La Belle France’s fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Hamel’s murder came as the country was on high alert over a series of jihadist attacks that began with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and which have claimed more than 250 lives in total.

It also raised questions about the ability of French intelligence agencies to prevent such attacks, since Kermiche was wearing an electronic bracelet at the time after anti-terrorism police learned he had twice tried to go fight in Syria.
That was in 2016. Are they still as stupid now?
Prosecutors say that Jean-Philippe Jean Louis, Farid Khelil and Yassine Sebaihia knew about the attackers’ plan, with Jean Louis traveling with Petitjean to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
just weeks before the attack in an attempt to reach Syria.

They have denied the charges of conspiracy with terrorists, with their lawyers calling them "scapegoats."

‘POUNCE ON THE INFIDELS’
Rachid Kassim, a Frenchie who became a key IS recruiter and is the alleged instigator of the attack, has been charged with complicity in the killing by helping to choose the target and providing advice.

"Pounce on the infidels like a hungry lion pounces on its prey," Kassim told them in audio and social media conversations discovered by Sherlocks.

Police also say Kassim was behind the chilling murder of a police officer and his lover companion in front of their three-year-old son in Magnanville, a Gay Paree suburb, just a few weeks before Hamel’s murder.

He is believed to have been killed in a coalition Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Iraq, where he lived, but is being tried in absentia since the death has not been confirmed.

Despite the absence of the main culprits, Hamel’s relatives and the victims are hoping to learn how the young men came to embrace the krazed killer ideology that led to the attack.

Guy Coponet, who was critically injured while being held hostage in the church, "wants to understand how these youths, barely out of adolescence, could commit such horrors," his lawyer Mehana Mouhou told AFP. Now 92, he plans to attend at least part of the hearings set for the next four weeks.

Catholic Church officials have launched the process to seek beatification for Hamel, a first step to canonization or sainthood, which is currently being examined by the Vatican. Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
, who approved a fast-track process for Hamel, called him a "martyr" who died for his faith, which means there is no requirement of a proof of miracles in his case.
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