An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France.
The two attackers, who said they were from the so-called Islamic State (IS), slit Fr Jacques Hamel's throat during a morning Mass, officials say.
Police surrounded the church and shot dead both hostage-takers. French media named one of them as Adel K.
One of the hostages is in a critical condition in hospital
Val says what a sad and terrible occurence. What a world we live in.
Kathryn Dobson says
Yesterday's attack in Rouen was terrible and my heart once again goes out to everyone touched by this cowardly event.
It concerns me that there are comments about France not being safe, what needs to be done, closing borders and the NF rhetoric rising to the fore again. Those of us who remember the 70s remember terrorism occurring on our streets before, but in those days we didn't have the magnifying glasses of social media and 24 hour news channels that have to fill their time and their need to link and replay.
France is relatively safe - additional protection is on the streets against the threat, we do not need the NF to take control. Only cowardly idiots or the mentally ill become terrorists. The vast majority of the French, no matter their religion, are not terrorists nor ever likely to become one. Daesh want us to live in fear, we cannot allow them to win.
Kathryn Dobson says
Yesterday's attack in Rouen was terrible and my heart once again goes out to everyone touched by this cowardly event.
It concerns me that there are comments about France not being safe, what needs to be done, closing borders and the NF rhetoric rising to the fore again. Those of us who remember the 70s remember terrorism occurring on our streets before, but in those days we didn't have the magnifying glasses of social media and 24 hour news channels that have to fill their time and their need to link and replay.
France is relatively safe - additional protection is on the streets against the threat, we do not need the NF to take control. Only cowardly idiots or the mentally ill become terrorists. The vast majority of the French, no matter their religion, are not terrorists nor ever likely to become one. Daesh want us to live in fear, we cannot allow them to win.
