In the aftermath of the attack in Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, Father Hamel's sister cannot help but see similarities between this tragedy and the assassination of her brother in July 2016. "We suffer with people. who recently suffered these attacks ", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.

TESTIMONY

Nice again struck by terrorism.

Thursday morning, around 9 a.m., a man attacked several people in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice.

Three people died in this "Islamist terrorist attack", in the words of Emmanuel Macron, including the sacristan of the basilica.

An act that inevitably echoes the attack in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray: on July 26, 2016, Father Hamel, an 85-year-old auxiliary priest, had just finished his morning mass in his church located in the suburbs of Rouen, when he had been killed with two stab wounds in the throat.

The assassins, both listed S, claimed to be from the Islamic State organization.

"We suffer with the people who recently suffered these attacks"

So when Father Hamel's sister, Roseline Hamel, learned of the news of the attack in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, it "very violently rekindled his pain, his pain which has not ceased to be for four years , this injustice happened on a beautiful sunny day in July ", she testifies at the microphone of Europe 1." We suffer with the people who have recently suffered these attacks.

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"It is absolutely necessary to straighten up without anger or hatred, but by acting intelligently"

In an almost resigned tone, she "describes a feeling of going backwards": "when is it going to stop? Is it going to stop someday? We haven't put it forward. is certain. I have no doubt that things are put in place, but it does fall into place with a delay every time and this is where the shoe pinches. " 

"It is absolutely necessary to recover with vigor, without anger or hatred, but by acting intelligently", she says. 

"We always think the inevitable can happen"

But that does not prevent the fear of being alongside Roseline Hamel on a daily basis.

“On the way to church, we always think that the inevitable can happen. Terrorism is like a sword of Damocles above our heads, whether it is me, my family, or other people who surrender. at church. " 

These attacks "are perpetrated to make us understand that our religion is despised".