Islamist terror in France, again.

Hollande says France is at war with ISIS: Islamist knifemen chanting 'Allah Akbar' behead French priest, 84, and leave nun fighting for her life after storming Mass - before police shoot them dead

Priest had throat cut while another hostage is fighting for life after knifemen burst into Normandy church at 9am

Reports that one of the attackers shouted 'Allah Akbar' as they launched attack at Gambetta Church near Rouen

Vatican has condemned the 'barbaric' killing of the 84-year-old priest and an anti-terror investigation is underway

ISIS claim responsibility for the atrocity while Francois Hollande says France is 'at war' with the terror group

One attackers lived locally and had electronic tag having been jailed in France for trying to travel to Syria in 2015

French authorities revealed this afternoon that they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack

 

Francois Hollande says France is at war with ISIS after two Islamist knifemen butchered a French priest and left a nun fighting for her life before they were both shot dead by police in Normandy.

One of the men who stormed into the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen during mass was a local man, who was being monitored by electronic tag after being jailed for trying to join fanatics in Syria.

The 84-year-old priest, named as Jacques Hamel, had his throats cut while a nun is critically injured in hospital following the raid which saw five people held hostage by ISIS assailants shouting 'Allahu Akbar'.

This afternoon it emerged that the murdered clergyman was deputising while the parish priest was on holiday. French authorities say they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack. 

The two killers were 'neutralised' by marksmen as they emerged from the building, which is now being searched for explosives. French president Hollande said France is 'at war' with ISIS while the terror group has claimed responsibility for the killing.

It comes as it emerged that the building was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist 'hit list' found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.

There are also reports that one of the attackers was a local resident who was under electronic tag surveillance having been jailed in France for trying to travel to Syria in 2015. His bail terms allowed him to be unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm - the attack happened between 9am and 11am. 

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