Four people are sent back to the Assize Court for the assassination in July 2016 of Father Hamel in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

Rachid Kassim, an influential IS propagandist presumed dead in Iraq, was among those returned. 

Four people, including an influential IS propagandist Rachid Kassim presumed dead in Iraq, are referred to the assize court specially composed for the assassination in July 2016 of Father Hamel in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, AFP learned from a close source on Friday.

According to the order of indictment which AFP was able to take cognizance of, the investigating judges in charge of the case referred Rachid Kassim to the assizes for "complicity in terrorist assassination" and three other people for "criminal terrorist association. ".

The two attackers, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, had been killed by the police on leaving the church.