According to the testimony of an investigator of the counter-terrorist sub-direction of the judicial police, the passage to the act of the two authors of the assassination of Father Hamel was predictable.
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The trial of the bombing of the Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime), during which Father Hamel was murdered and a parishioner, Guy Coponet, seriously injured by two jihadists on July 26th 2016, is a strange judicial object, while paradoxes.
One judges one of the most resounding attacks of the 2010 decade but in the Box of the Assize Court specially composed of Paris are only three companions, exempt from any role in the attack of the ‘church. The two authors, Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, have indeed been killed by the police forces on the spot. As for the instigator, Rachid Kassim, fourth accused in this trial, he is presumed dead in an air bombardment in Iraq on February 10, 2017.
Other major paradox: the inevitable nature of this attack opposite the improvisation of its execution. This apparent contradiction has gone through the long deposition of an investigator of the anti-terrorist sub-direction of the judicial police (SDAT) on the murderous course of the Kermiche-Petitjean-Kassim trio.
“we could not do anything do “
Kermiche and Petitjean, both of them, at the time of the fact, share the upset willingness to join the Islamic State Organization (EI) in Syria. In March 2015, Adel Kermiche, whose family lives in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, is intercepted in Germany. Indicted, he is under judicial review. A month and a half later, he goes to Switzerland, from which he embarks for Istanbul. On arrival, it is immediately returned to France, where he is detained.
In March 2016, it enjoys conditional release under an electronic bracelet. In appearance, he respects the conditions imposed and leaves his home only for authorized hours. A report of probation services even mentions that “his speech on religion does not demonstrate an adhesion to an extremist ideology”.
But on the Telegram channel he created in June 2016, Al-Haqq Wal Dalil (“The Truth and Proof”), Kermiche boasts his “taqiya” (“concealment”). During his testimony, Wednesday, February 16, Nicole Klein, prefect of Normandy at the time, had implicate the decision to release: “When we learned that the judge” had estimated “that he was out of proselytism We did not believe it for a second. But we could not do anything, except monitoring his facts and gestures, “she regretted.
” Rachid Kassim was the catalyst “
Obviously, surveillance has been insufficient. On its Telegram chain, Adel Kermiche relays the propaganda of the EI, justifies slavery, the filmed decapitations, etc. It forms the project of an attack as a substitute for a departure become impossible. In an audio post on June 26, he assures that “the one who attacks here” is “better than the one who makes the hijra” (“Emigration to the land of Islam”).
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