Two teenagers who murdered an elderly French priest a year ago, after pledging loyalty to the Islamic State group, failed to sow religious division, President Emmanuel Macron told a memorial service Wednesday. Jacques Hamel, 85, was conducting mass in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, when the attackers burst in and slit his throat … Read more
French prosecutors have placed three young women under formal investigation over a foiled attack near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Ines Madani, 19, Sara Hervouet, 23, and Amel Sakaou, 39, were brought before anti-terrorism judges on Monday. The women are suspected of plotting to blow up a car packed with gas canisters last week, and … Read more
Three women arrested over a foiled attack in Paris were directed by so-called Islamic State (IS) from Syria, a French prosecutor has said. The group “wanted to make the women into fighters”, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. A policeman was stabbed during an operation late on Thursday to arrest the women, after the discovery of … Read more