Hostages in a church in France – Merkur.de

Updated: 07/26/16 12: 40

Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray- in northern France there was a hostage situation in a church. The perpetrators are armed with knives five hostages have taken. Meanwhile they have been killed by the police. An anti-terrorism department determined.

In a hostage situation in a church in northern France Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, about 100 kilometers northwest of Paris, is at least one hostage was killed. The learned the news agency AFP on Tuesday police sources. The two kidnappers were “neutralized” according to the French Interior Ministry

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21 in this church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray it came to the hostage situation

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Two hostage-takers are around 9:45 clock with a pointed or edged weapon armed in a church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray entered at Rouen. They had apparently five people under their control: a priest, two nuns and two believers. A sister was apparently fleeing and sparked alarm

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police tweeting already, that the action was over. One Islamist background would not confirm the Interior Ministry.

At least one hostage said to have been killed. But this is still no “final report,” a police official said on Tuesday. French President Francois Hollande and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve immediately started in on their way to the scene.

After the hostage hangs a hostage in mortal danger. She was very seriously injured and hovering “between life and death,” said the spokesman for the Parisian interior ministry, Pierre-Henry Brandet, journalists on Tuesday.

The anti-terrorism department of the Paris prosecutor’s investigations pulled in. This was announced by the agency on Tuesday.

“Horror in the face of the barbaric attack on a church (…). The whole of France and all Catholics have been violated. We stand together, “said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on the short message service Twitter

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Le Figaro and Le Parisien report, as well as the news agency AFP citing police circles that the priest is dead. Apparently, the perpetrators have slashed the man’s throat. Another hostage to have been injured. Media also reported that the priest was beheaded. L’Express reports, the pastor was 92 years old and very popular everywhere.

Le Figaro reported that first surveys should have revealed, however, that the perpetrators came in through the back of the church during a Mass was held.

yet by April 2015 could the French security forces prevent planned attacks on several churches. This time it is not apparently managed.