French church attacker was under house arrest on terror charges

July 27, 2016 10:39

One of two attackers who stormed a small-town church in France and killed a priest was under house arrest and awaiting trial on terror charges, officials said on Wednesday, as the nation struggled to come to terms with the third major attack in 18 months.

Adel Kermiche, 19, was one of two attackers who stormed a Catholic church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest, Jacques Hamel, and leaving a worshipper with serious injuries, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.

The attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, comes with France still in mourning less than two weeks after Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd in the Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300.

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