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France: Muslim man storms church during mass attacking parishioner

July 28, 2022 Chris Tomlinson  

(Breitbart) A Muslim man interrupted mass in a French church in the suburbs of Paris over the weekend, attacking a parishioner and screaming during the liturgy. The incident took place on Sunday at the Church of Saint-Germain, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the Paris suburbs […]

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France jails three over links to 2016 jihadist killing of priest

March 9, 2022 Amélie Baubeau  

(AFP) A French court on Wednesday sentenced to jail terms of up to 13 years three men charged with connections to the brutal 2016 jihadist killing of an 85-year-old priest that shocked the country. Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit at […]

Christians

Trial opens over jihadist murder of French priest

February 14, 2022 Amélie Baubeau  

(AFP) The alleged accomplices in the 2016 murder of an 85-year-old French priest appeared in the dock in Paris on Monday after years of investigation into an attack that shocked a country already reeling from a spate of jihadist assaults. Father Jacques […]

Christians

Texts of Islamist killers spoke of ‘church carnage’ before beheading of French priest

July 10, 2021 Chris Tomlinson  

(Breitbart) Text messages of the two Islamist men who murdered Father Jaques Hamel and a “sponsor” in Syria reveal how the terrorists chose to target the elderly priest. Five years after the deadly attack which saw Father Jaques Hamel murdered in his […]

Christians

France church attacker arrived in Europe from Tunisia days ago

October 29, 2020 Unlisted Author  

(BBC) A Tunisian man who killed three people in a church in France only recently arrived in Europe, officials say. The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat […]

Christians

Knifeman kills three at French church, ratcheting up terror fears

October 29, 2020 Vincent-Xavier Morvan and Sylvie Maligorne  

(AFP) A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what officials are treating as the latest jihadist attack to rock the country. The […]

Academics & Education

France to crack down on online posts after teacher’s murder

October 23, 2020 Jürgen Hecker  

(AFP) France said on Friday it would crack down on social media posts that put people in danger by divulging their personal details, a week after the murder of a teacher targeted in an online campaign over Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Samuel Paty […]

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