Posted on 07/26/2016 2:22:09 AM PDT by djsunzi
Police have shot two men who took a priest and several others hostage at knifepoint at a church in north-western France.
The men cut the priest's throat before being "neutralised," police said.
Le Figaro newspaper reported that the priest died after his throat was cut.
The men’s motives are still unknown. Elite police units rushed to the church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray after the men seized a number of people including a priest and two nuns.
It remains unclear whether the hostage takers were killed in the police action.
A police source told AFP that one of the hostages has been killed.
Up to six people were being held by the assailants in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, according to police sources.
A priest is understood to be among the hostages, as well as two nuns and a worshipper.
Their motives are unknown and police have arrived at the scene, according to news website Normandie Actu.
The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, is travelling to the church.
The hostages included the priest, two nuns and two worshippers.
Police have sealed off the church, while ambulances are on the scene.
More to follow.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
John Kerry could partner with Yusuf Islam in a duet of Peace Train to show solidarity.
“Atheist or Muslim?” Or maybe it was the Amish?
“motives are still unknown” now equals Islamic terrorism. If you were a gambler you would win most of the time on that bet.
From the article:
The men shouted “Daesh” and cut the priest’s throat before being “neutralised,” police said.
Le Figaro newspaper reported that the priest died after his throat was cut.
The men’s motives are still unknown.
What INSANITY has to be operating for someone (at least someone who is not himself a jihadi) to write these three sentences one after the other?
We were just here last year touring the Normandy coast.
Good grief.
“The men shouted “Daesh” and cut the priest’s throat...”
ISIS is called Daesh by the Arabs. In fact our own State Dept. has to call it that at posts in the Middle East.
Stuff like this is just so hard to figure out for the govt liars.
“Police have shot two men”
At least the ratio is positive, 2 to 1.
[The men’s motives are still unknown.]]
Either they are stupid or they think we are .
We know the savage that did it follows mad mo and chances are he even has mad mo’s name to boot.
Local media is reporting priest was * beheaded * by assailants during French church attack
Could be "right wing gun nuts".
It's just hard to tell.
Muslims. There, I said it.
So why does the Obama Admin and the MSM refer to it as “ISIS” or “ISIL” here? Because they want to recognize it as a state?
Priest killed during knife attack during mass near #Rouen identified as 86 yo Jacques Hamel.
Per twitter of Jose Miguel Sardo.
A priest killed in his church, supposedly beheaded according to the latest information, will be considered a martyr and possibly sainted by the Holy See.
So much for ‘religious cleansing’.
IIRC, during the Spanish Civil War the communists destroyed churches, murdered priests and nuns.
The left and Islam have a common enemy, which explains the media and government trying to paper over all this.
The “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” is abbreviated as ISIS. In Arabic it’s abbreviation is pronounced “Da’aesh”. It means the same thing.
ISIL, the L stands for Levant, which includes Israel. Something which only a few American officials and journalists use to refer to ISIS.
How long before we are told the religious-ethnicity of the murderer(s)?
Is France avoiding the truth STILL?
Normandy siege: knifemen ‘shouted Daesh and slit 86-year-old priest’s throat’ after taking nuns hostage in church before being shot dead
from the uk telegraph... DAESH... is ISIS
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