The national anti-terrorism prosecution on Friday asked for an assize trial for four people in the entourage of the two jihadists who murdered Father Jacques Hamel in July 2016. Three of them are currently in detention.
It is now up to the investigating judge in charge of the case to make a final decision on the holding of a trial at the assizes.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat) on Friday requested a trial for four people in the entourage of the two jihadists killed by the police after having assassinated Father Jacques Hamel in July 2016 in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray ( Seine-Maritime).
One of the accused is considered dead
In its final indictment dated Friday, the Pnat calls for a trial for "complicity in assassination" for Rachid Kassim, probable instigator of the attack but considered dead, as well as for three men suspected of having associated with the two attackers in knowing their terrorist intentions.
It is now up to the investigating judge in charge of the case to make a final decision on the holding of a trial at the assizes.
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The assassination on July 26, 2016 of this priest in his church, a highly symbolic religious target, had an international impact, twelve days after the terrorist attack in Nice which left 86 dead.
The assassins, Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean, aged 19, both listed S and who claimed to be of the Islamic State group, had been shot dead by the police when they left the church in this small town in the industrial suburb of Rouen.
A trial for "criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise"
In this investigation, the Pnat requests a trial for "criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise" for three men, currently detained: Farid K., Yassine S. and Jean-Philippe Steven Jean Louis.
Probable instigator of the attack, Rachid Kassim, famous French recruiter of the EI group, is the fourth man involved in this file.
Considered today to have been killed in Iraq in 2017, this jihadist, also accused of having remote-controlled the Magnanville attack and several plans for attacks in France, is the target of an arrest warrant for "complicity" of the 'attack.