On Monday, February 14, the trial of the Saint-Etienne du Rouvray attack opened, during which Father Hamel lost his life on July 26, 2016. The three defendants present were sentenced to sentences ranging from eight to thirteen years in prison. jail.
The day had started normally, before ending tragically. On July 26, 2016, after mass, two men burst into the church of the town of Saint-Etienne du Rouvray in Seine-Maritime. They are radical Islamists, and then attack the people present in the place of worship by threatening them with knives and artificial explosives. Among the victims is Father Jacques Hamel who “looked happy” that day remembers Guy Coponet, a 92-year-old man who agreed to testify at the trial of this skilfully prepared Islamist attack, which begins on Monday 14 February.
Forced to film the assassination of Father Hamel, Guy Coponet remembered in the 8 p.m. news from France 2, Sunday February 13, that the monk tried to defend himself with his feet while the two assailants threatened him with a knife. “He was telling them, ‘Satan, get out!’, because he knew how it was going to end.”, thus confided the witness, who was himself seriously injured during this attack. Attacked with a knife, in the neck, in the arm and in the back, the 92-year-old man “fall down and play dead”meanwhile, that the two men ransack the church.
Who are the condemned?
Although the two assailants, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, both 19 years old, were killed on the spot by the security forces, the trial of the Saint-Etienne du Rouvray attack, which was held at the Special Assize Court of Paris, was also that of three men, tried for terrorist criminal association. Among them, Farid Khelil. Aged 36, he is the cousin of Abel-Malik Petitjean and was sentenced to ten years in prison, explains 20Minutes. Jean-Philippe Steven Jean-Louis, a 25-year-old man from a Christian family who converted to Islam in 2014, suspected of having hosted a jihadist channel on Telegram, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison. jail. Yassine Sebaihia, 27, received an eight-year prison sentence while Rachid Kassim, an Islamic State propagandist, was sentenced in his absence to life imprisonment for complicity.
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Guy Copenet, a witness, revealed what were the last words of Father Jacques Hamel
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