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France knife attack: Two men armed with knives 'take hostages in Normandy church'

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What we know so far ;

-The bishop of the Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouvray church has been assassinated by the assaillants.
-Another hostage is seriously injured. Fighting for his life.
-The two assaillants have been killed by the BRI when the tried to flee the church.
-They stormed the church at ~9am during the mass.
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RIP. And now catholics get attacked because of their faith... and in churches... No places are spared anymore.
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According to police sources,one of the assaillant was bearded and was wearing a 'chachia'.
 
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Wow, and their head of homeland security just warned of a civil war level of tension barely a couple weeks ago. It'll be brutal when one of these now almost weekly jihad attacks finally break the proverbial camel's back and people decide to do something about it.

Dangerous and sad times ahead in Europe.
 
Ehh... again i'm more and more for banning Islam .

"Those people where mental ill!!! And its france fault for bombing muslims ..." Yeee right ...
Soon i will think all Muslims got some "Mental illness"...
 
Priest killed in France church hostage taking
By AFP
Published: July 26, 2016
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French police officers and fire engine arrive at the scene of a hostage-taking at a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, northern France, on July 26, 2016 that left the priest dead. PHOTO: AFP

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, FRANCE: A priest was killed on Tuesday when men armed with knives seized hostages at a church near the northern French city of Rouen, a police source said.

Police said they killed two hostage-takers in the attack in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, 125 kilometres (77 miles) north of Paris.

A priest was killed and another hostage was “between life and death”, the interior ministry said.

The motivations for the hostage-taking were not yet clear, but the Paris prosecutor’s office said the case had been handed to anti-terrorism judges for investigation.

France truck attack was planned for months, with accomplices

The incident comes as France remains on high alert nearly two weeks after Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300.

French President Francois Hollande, who is from Rouen, and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve were on their way to the scene, their offices said.

Footage showed several emergency vehicles at the scene and the streets sealed off.

The Nice attack was the third major strike on France in 18 months and was claimed by the Islamic State group.

Two attacks in Germany claimed by the Islamic State group since then have also increased jitters in Europe.

After the attack in Nice, France extended a state of emergency giving police extra powers to carry out searches and place people under house arrest for another six months until January.

It was the fourth time the security measures have been extended since Islamic State extremists struck Paris in November, killing 130 people at restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium.

The Nice massacre has triggered by a bitter political spat over alleged security failings, with the government accused of not doing enough to protect the population.

France expected to extend emergency laws after Nice

Prime Minster Manuel Valls had warned earlier in the week that the country will face more attacks as its struggles to handle extremists returning from fights in the Middle East and those radicalised at home by devouring propaganda on the internet.

France has been concerned about the threat against churches ever since a foiled plot against in the Paris suburb of Villejuif in April last year.

Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old Algerian IT student, was arrested in Paris on suspicion of killing a woman who was found shot dead in the passenger seat of her car, and of planning an attack on a church.

Prosecutors say they found documents about al Qaeda and IS at his home, and that he had been in touch with a suspected extremist in Syria about an attack on a church.
 
Priest, 86, is 'beheaded' by two 'Islamic knifemen' !!

Source Dailymail

KILLING IS LATEST IN SPATE OF BLOODY ATTACKS ACROSS EUROPE
Today's attack is the latest to hit Europe in what has been a year of bloodshed on the continent:

July 24: Festival suicide bombing - A failed Syrian asylum seeker set off an explosive device near an open-air music festival in the southern city of Ansbach that killed himself and wounded a dozen others.

The 27-year-old had spent time in a psychiatric facility, while the regional authorities said an there was 'likely' a jihadist motive for the attack.

However a spokesman for the interior ministry later said there was as yet 'no credible evidence' of a link to Islamic extremism.

July 24: Knife attack - A Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a Polish woman with a large kebab knife at a snack bar in the southwestern city of Reutlingen, in an incident police said did not bear the hallmarks of a 'terrorist attack' and was more likely a crime of passion.

Three people were also injured in the assault, which ended when the 21-year-old assailant was deliberately struck by a BMW driver, believed to be the snack bar owner's son, trying to stop the man.

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People mourn in front of candles and flowers near the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, southern Germany, where an 18-year-old German-Iranian student ran amok on a shooting spree on July 22

July 22: Munich mall mass shooting - David Ali Sonboly, 18, shot dead nine people at a Munich shopping mall before turning the gun on himself, having spent a year planning the rampage.

Police said that the German-Iranian was 'obsessed' with mass killers like Norwegian right-wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Islamic State group.

July 18: Train axe attack - A 17-year-old migrant wielding an axe and a knife went on a rampage on a regional train, seriously injuring four members of a tourist family from Hong Kong and a German passer-by.

ISIS group subsequently released a video purportedly featuring the assailant, named by media as Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, announcing he would carry out an 'operation' in Germany, and presenting himself as a 'soldier of the caliphate'.

He is believed to have been Afghan or Pakistani.

July 14: Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300.


The Nice attack was the third major strike on France in 18 months and was claimed by ISIS.

March 22: Suicide attacks claimed by ISIS kill 32 people and wound more than 300 at the Brussels airport and Maelbeek metro station, near European Union offices. They appear to have been carried out by members of the same cell that committed attacks in Paris four months earlier.

November 13, 2015: Coordinated suicide attacks in Paris kill 130 people and wound more than 350 at the Bataclan concert hall, cafes and the national stadium. ISIS claims responsibility for the attacks.
 

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