2016
Normandy church attack
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Location
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Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Normandy, France |
Date
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Target
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Christians
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Attack type
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Weapons
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Knives
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Deaths
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3 (including both perpetrators)
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Non-fatal injuries
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1
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Perpetrator
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Adel Kermiche
Abdel Malik Petitjean |
Motive
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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.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Normandy_church_attack
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