Abdel Malik Petitjean

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Fr Jacques Hamel celebrating Mass in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy. He was murdered there on July 26th, 2016. Photograph: Paroisse Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray/AFP
Inquiry into intelligence failures around French priest’s murder

French authorities have undertaken a potentially explosive investigation into intelligence blunders that failed to prevent the murder of an 85-year-ol(...)

A policeman at Midi train station after the Brussels bombings in March. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
Radicalisation not the only factor in recent terrorism

Islamic State claimed that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the Tunisian who killed 86 people and injured 434 others on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on(...)

An image taken from video shows Abdel Malik Petitjean and Adel Kermiche, the men behind the church attack in Normandy. Petitjean exhorted Muslims ‘brothers’ to ‘strike this country’. Photograph: Handout via Reuters
Priest’s killers were Isis apprentices who met through app

Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, the 19-year-olds who slit the throat of Fr Jacques Hamel (86) while he celebrated Mass last Tuesday, first co(...)