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Originally posted by: hoops2
Courageous isis fighters slit the throat of an 84 yr old priest this am.
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The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage.
Police later surrounded the church and French TV said shots were fired. Both hostage-takers are now dead.
President Francois Hollande said the men claimed to be from so-called Islamic State (IS).
Speaking in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, he said the attackers had committed a "cowardly assassination" and France would fight IS "by all means".
Pope Francis decried the "pain and horror of this absurd violence".
French interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henri Brandet, said one of the hostages had been critically wounded.
He said the hostage-takers had been "neutralised" after coming out of the church. Police were now searching the church for explosives.
'Barbaric'
Police sources said it appeared the attackers had slit the priest's throat with a knife.
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There was a time, long ago, when such barbarity was considered normal social intercourse among competing societies.
It seems those times are returning to the Euro-Wonderland. DonDiego suggest that is unfortunate for the citizens of Europe, . . . but there's no need to bring large numbers of those who may be associated with The Islamic State into the United States.