A ceremony is organized in tribute to Jacques Hamel, assassinated six years ago in a series of jihadist attacks.
About fifty people, religious leaders, elected officials and anonymous people, gathered on the morning of Tuesday July 26 in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime) for a tribute ceremony, six years after the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel .
The prefect Pierre-André Durand, the president of the department, Bertrand Bellanger (LREM), the mayor of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Joachim Moyse (PCF), on the arm of one of Father Hamel’s sisters, Roseline, and his predecessor, Hubert Wulfranc (PCF), took part in a march to the Saint-Étienne church, where a mass was later celebrated before a republican ceremony.
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“We enter into prayer where Jacques fell, victim of the madness of men“said the Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun, opening the mass in the church where Father Jacques Hamel, 85, had his throat cut on July 26, 2016, at the end of a mass in front of three nuns and a couple of parishioners. Another octogenarian parishioner was also seriously injured in this small church in the suburbs of Rouen, as the country was hit by a series of jihadist attacks. The two 19-year-old assassins, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, who claimed to be from the Islamic State (IS) group, were killed by the police as they left the church.