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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

2016 NORMANDY CHURCH ATTACK (JULY 26, 2016)



2016 Normandy church attack

 
St-Étienne church, where the attack took place


Location
Date
26 July 2016
09:43 CEST (UTC+2)
Target
Christians
Attack type
Weapons
Knives
Deaths
3 (including both perpetrators)
Non-fatal injuries
1
Perpetrator
Adel Kermiche
Abdel Malik Petitjean
Motive


On 26 July 2016, two Islamist terrorists attacked participants in a Mass at a Catholic church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, northern France. Wielding knives and wearing fake explosive belts, the men took six people captive and later killed one of them, 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel, by slitting his throat, and also critically wounded an 86-year-old man. The terrorists were shot dead by BRI police as they tried to leave the church.

The attackers, 19-year-olds Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

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