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We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. One of the two attackers who slit the throat of an elderly priest in a church in France has been named as Adel Kermiche. The year-old and his unnamed accomplice stormed the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy, and forced year-old Father Jacques Hamel to kneel before they slit his throat on camera in the style of an Isis murder video.
An year-old woman, one of five held hostage on Tuesday, said the attackers handed her husband a mobile phone and demanded that he take photos or video of the priest after he was killed. Her husband was in turn slashed in four places by the attackers and is now hospitalised with serious injuries. The elderly woman identified only as Jeanine told RMC radio that her husband played dead to stay alive. Two nuns were held hostage along with the couple and the priest, while a third nun escaped and gave the alert.
