A French court has convicted the associates of the jihadists who entered a Catholic Church and murdered a Catholic priest as he was celebrating mass.
Jean-Philippe Steven Jean-Louis, 25, was sentenced to 13 years, Farid Khelil to 10 years, Yassine Sebaihia to eight years, and Rachid Kassim, a Frenchman who was an infamous Islamic State recruiter, was sentenced to life in prison, but he was believed to have been killed in a drone strike in 2017 in Iraq.
The Associated Press reported that during the trial, the three accomplices of the murderers “asked for forgiveness and admitted that they voluntarily associated with individuals who were preparing to commit terrorist crimes. But they argued that wasn’t enough to mark them as terrorists, too.”
It certainly is enough to mark them as “terrorists.” This was no simple crime, it was a jihad attack motivated by Islamic religious zeal. This is why deradicalization programs have been a grave failure across the board. Jihadis consider themselves to be soldiers of Allah. Instead of feeling remorse for their crimes, jihadis go to jail and work there to recruit their fellow inmates to jihad, and have had great success.
According to Catholic Online, Father Hamel didn’t just have his throat cut as most media has been stating. He was “beheaded on the Cross, as he was celebrating the sacrifice of Christ’s cross.” It’s no random coincidence that slitting throats and beheadings are so common among jihadis.
So when you meet the disbelievers, strike necks until you have thoroughly subdued them, then bind them firmly. (Quran 47:4)
“French court convicts associates of jihadists who killed Catholic priest,” Reuters, March 9, 2022:
PARIS, March 9 (Reuters) – Three acquaintances of the teenage assailants who murdered an 85-year-old Catholic priest as he celebrated mass in his church in 2016 were respectively sentenced to 8, 10 and 13 years in prison for “criminal terrorist association”, French media reported on Wednesday.
Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean cut the throat of Father Jacques Hamel at the foot of the altar of his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, and wounded a worshipper they took hostage before being shot dead by police.
The two attackers had said in a video they were members of Islamic State.
Father Hamel’s killing occurred less than two weeks after a Tunisian man drove a truck through a crowd celebrating France’s National Day on the Nice beachfront promenade, killing 86 people, and seven months after the coordinated attacks on Paris….
Michael Copeland says
“criminal terrorist association” seems to be the equivalent in France of “aiding and abetting” (in English law) an act of terrorism, in other words complicity through co-conspiracy.
Elsewhere the trial is in process of fourteen defendants linked to the Charlie Hebdo murders for “Participating in a Terrorist Criminal Association”. On analysis Islam itself qualifies for that description.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/10/participating-in-a-terrorist-criminal-association/
Don McKellar says
Is it any wonder why there’s a political shift going on in France right now? The tragedy is in how many people must die, how many women must be raped, how many free speech rights stripped, how much property destroyed, how many taxpayer dollars thrown away… before finally, maybe, something will be done about the Islamic elephant in the room.
Michael Copeland says
The media use cover phrases that really need to be translated. The three victims of the Waltham triple slaying on 9/11/11 were described by police as “stabbed in the neck”.
Years later one police member, speaking to the press, said their throats had been slashed with such ferocity that their heads had been almost severed: “It was like something out of Al Qaeda!”, he said.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/07/a-triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots/
noel says
13 years for murder ,that is insane.In 13 years he should beheaded . To me a murder means taking ones life and 13 years is a drop in a bucket for them murder.
Rufolino says
Well over a century ago Winston Churchill wrote something about “the effect of Islam on a man is like the effect of rabies on a dog.”
Every day we read about violent instances of this, but people are still unwilling to perceive the truth in Churchill’s words.
Rafael says
Christophobia is one of the biggest problems, and dangers of the contemporary World. Even in Christian countries, criminal Muslims are not sentenced to prison enoughly and they can pose a threath to the owner Christian native population. They conquered Anatolia and other parts of the formerly Christian Middle East by overrunning the Christian population, and today, being a Christian in Europe is dangerous but it is far more dangerous to live as a Christian in the Middle East, which were Christian before.
gravenimage says
French court convicts associates of Islamic State jihadis who beheaded Catholic priest during mass
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Well, this is good. But will they be out in a few years to murder more French people? Will they be deported after serving their sentences?
Andrew Blackadder says
I will never understanding the sentencing guidelines of Europe,or the US for that matter, when a person is sentenced to, lets say, 10 years, but they get out in 6 or 7 years due to ”good behavior”, what nonsense, if they behaved themselves in 10 years then perhaps they will get out and not one day before, every bad interaction they commit while in Prison will add time to their previous sentence.
Once these low life’s enter Prison they will be held up as hero’s by the other low IQ, low life muslims inside.
No wonder muslims around the World are laughing in our faces.
They see our level of tolerance as our weakness while we may see that as our strength.