France church attack: Priest killed by two 'IS soldiers'

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Last edited Tue Jul 26, 2016, 10:19 AM - Edit history (4)

Source: BBC

A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men on his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France.

The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage.

Police later surrounded the church and French TV said shots were fired. Both hostage-takers are now dead.

The Amaq news agency, linked to so-called Islamic State, said "two IS soldiers" had carried out the attack. President Francois Hollande said the men had claimed to be from IS.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36892785

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Jacques Hamel, 84 years old.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

1. Seems French police aren't fucking about anymore

#BREAKING Two assailants 'neutralised' after hostage-taking in French church: ministry
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757865125579780096

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Hostage-takers at French church near Rouen 'are dead'

Two armed men who took hostages at a church near Rouen in northern France are now dead, police sources have said.
...
France 3 television said a number of shots had been heard. Police and the emergency services are at the scene.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36892785

[MowCowWhoHow III]

3. One hostage killed at church in northern France: police source

#BREAKING One hostage killed at church in northern France: police source
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757866805562081280

According to French media Le Figaro, the two attackers slit the throat of a priest in the Church
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/757868404925542400

[MowCowWhoHow III]

4. Second hostage fighting for life after north France church attack: ministry

#BREAKING Second hostage fighting for life after north France church attack: ministry
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757876197426618368

Also apparently the priest didn't merely have his throat slit, but was beheaded.

Guess who?

[Travis_0004]

9. And everybody was saying England is racist for wanting to control its borders

[7962]

13. Yes, how DARE they!!

[TubbersUK]

18. Actually, the UK does control its borders - we're not part of Schengen

EU facts behind the claims: borders

Unlike most other EU member states—and some countries outside the EU—the UK is not part of the Schengen passport-free area because it hasn’t signed the Schengen agreement. This means it can retain border controls.

The British government retains full control over its own border controls. Travellers who hold EU passports can’t cross the UK border without having their passport or identity checked, and the same applies for travellers from non-EU countries.

The UK can, and does, perform passport and identity checks at its borders and refuses entry to travellers who do not travel with valid identity documents even if they are from another EU member state.

The benefit of holding an EU passport, or being the citizen of a European Economic Area (EEA) country (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) or Switzerland, is that you travel through a separate channel at UK border controls. This normally results in a swifter identity check.

Concerns have been raised that terrorists may take advantage of refugee routes to Europe. As the UK retains its own border controls and national control over asylum-seeking processes it has the capacity to address any such development itself.

https://fullfact.org/europe/border-security-eu/

[Deuce]

24. Thanks...

[all american girl]

28. You have to go thru passport control and tell them why you are going to be there

I was just there last week and I live in Belgium, so they already control their borders.

[TipTok]

46. I wonder if they would accept beheading as a legitimate business purpose...

[Nevernose]

52. The attackers were born and raised in France

How would strict border control have stopped this?

(To be fair, we have no info about the second attacker yet. But based on what we currently know, borders have nothing to do with it)

[mylye2222]

5. The officing priest has been throathelled

What is happening to this country...
Im so sad...

[EL34x4]

44. The correct term is "jugulate"

verb (archaic)
kill (someone) by cutting the throat.

Learned this from a Phoenix song, Lisztomania. Likely the only recorded song ever with the word "jugulate" in the lyrics.

[mylye2222]

45. Thank you.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

6. French PM Valls expresses 'horror at barbaric attack on church'

French PM Valls expresses 'horror at barbaric attack on church'
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757880751773868032

[Elmergantry]

7. Martyred for Christ.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

8. Pope 'pain and horror' at France church hostage-taking

Pope 'pain and horror' at France church hostage-taking
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757886770256175104

[Democat]

10. Suspects?

Is this personal or terrorism?

[MowCowWhoHow III]

11. France church attack: what we know

France church attack: what we know



https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757882804176838656

[Democat]

12. Thank you

Not much there yet, but they are looking at the possibility of terrorism.

It would be a strange target for a terror attack unless this priest is high ranking in France?

[ansible]

14. They beheaded the priest

[Democat]

16. Terrible

Such evil.

[jonno99]

51. This is a whole other level of evil I think. To essentially "sacrifice" a priest at the

alter of his own church.

I don't understand how one loses their humanity to get to this point - not acting out in anger or a fit of rage, but to commit such an abomination with predetermination - coldly and deliberately. This kind of behavior has an odor from the pit of hell...

[MowCowWhoHow III]

15. Church attackers 'claimed to be from' Islamic State group: Hollande

#BREAKING Church attackers 'claimed to be from' Islamic State group: Hollande
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/757902850185977857

[secondwind]

17. I've been inside this church.... oh, how sad this makes me.. and how angry!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. Me, too.

Oh, shit.

[TubbersUK]

23. Yes, me too

This is horrific

[hrmjustin]

19. There are no words! May he rest in peace and rise in glory!

[MowCowWhoHow III]

20. ISIS claims Normandy Church attack through their news agency Amaq

BREAKING: #ISIS claims Normandy Church attack through their news agency Amaq
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/757911370998378496

[Scorpionflyx]

22. Terrible.

Why?

[MosheFeingold]

31. Because they were an easy kill

I don't think people understand the radical Islamic mindset.

All cultures are NOT equal.

[Nevernose]

53. Not exactly

ISIS very specifically wants to start a holy war between Christianity and Islam, killing all non-Muslims in a literal apocalypse, in order to fulfill Koranic prophesies of the coming of their Messiah.

They could have killed any 84 year old. They chose a priest, during mass, because they want Armageddon and they have a 1500 year old book with instructions on how to get it.

[shenmue]

25. Memory eternal

[Coventina]

26. They really are trying to start a religious war, aren't they?

For the victims.

[avaistheone1]

27. Start?

It has been going on for some time.

[6chars]

29. hopefully France will not choose a response that provokes further attacks

[B2G]

30. Yeah, because that's working so well. nt

[Throd]

32. We don't want to make them angry.

They might resort to violence.

[maxsolomon]

33. there is no response that would not provoke further attacks

as they are losing territory in the Caliphate, ISIL is trying to provoke France.

they want to provoke Europe into oppressing its immigrant population. well, more directly oppressing - RW vigilantism, expulsions, etc.

[maxsolomon]

48. of course not

I'm saying these attacks are provocations TO escalate.

however, France, the state, cannot control all its people, and they have a Nationalist party. they're the ones to worry about.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

35. What has France done to provoke the attacks thus far?

[6chars]

36. quite a lot

attacks in syria and elsewhere
cracking down on islamists in france
raiding mosques

[Nuclear Unicorn]

37. Cracking down on groups that promote terror attacks is a provocation?

This is as deranged as claiming a woman who resists rape is guilty of assaulting men.

[6chars]

38. maybe it depends on the terrorist group

[Nuclear Unicorn]

39. Or maybe it doesn't

[6chars]

40. maybe not.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

41. Then there is no reason to not confront the killers, their peers and those who support them.

[MicaelS]

42. France has made it quite clear

That is a Secular state and will remain so.They should not give up their national identity to placate a bunch of religious fanatics. Islamists are going to keep stirring the pot in Europe and the resulting backlash will probably result in mass deportations back to their home countries.

[JI7]

43. ISIS is attacking Syria.

[TipTok]

47. Wouldn't want to anger the violent religious extermists...

Fuck em...

[MowCowWhoHow III]

49. Video shows France church attackers pledge allegiance to IS

#BREAKING Video shows France church attackers pledge allegiance to IS
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/758363215394906112

[melman]

50. The video