Océane Théard, edited by Laura Laplaud 06:19, February 18, 2022
On the fourth day of the trial for the assassination of Father Jacques Hamel, on July 26, 2016, which opened on Monday in Paris, his sister, Roseline Hamel, spoke.
With great pain and her voice full of tears, she proclaimed loud and clear: "You will not have my hatred".
The civil parties spoke at the bar on Thursday during the trial for the assassination of priest Jacques Hamel.
Among them, the long-awaited testimony of Roseline Hamel, the sister of the priest savagely murdered by two jihadists during the 2016 attack. She delivered a poignant story.
"No gentlemen, you will not have my hatred"
Roseline Hamel plants her blue eyes in those of the three accused seated in the box.
Dressed in a black jacket, a halo of white hair, she has just painted a portrait of her big brother Jacques.
A discreet, silent man, but who listens with his eyes and his ears, she says.
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The octogenarian then recounts this morning of July 26, 2016. The headlines on television, the phone which suddenly keeps ringing.
A hostage-taking is in progress at the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
A few hours later, Roseline learns that her brother was murdered during mass.
"I screamed. My daughter told me to stop screaming, it won't bring Jacques back."
Her voice is filled with sobs
It is a great suffering, a heartbreak.
Roseline Hamel suddenly turns to the dock.
"But no, gentlemen, you will not have my hatred. With my great suffering, the suffering of my entire family, you will not have my hatred", repeats Roseline Hamel, who with this trial wants to know the hidden truths which led to the death of his brother.