, a working-class suburb of Rouen in northwest France.
Fr Hamel's murder came as the country was on high alert over a series of attacks that began with a massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and which have claimed more than 250 lives in total. They have denied the charges of conspiracy with terrorists, with their lawyers calling them"scapegoats."Rachid Kassim, a Frenchman who became a key IS recruiter and is the alleged instigator of the attack, has been charged with complicity in the killing by helping to choose the target and providing advice.
He is believed to have been killed in a coalition airstrike near Mosul, Iraq, where he lived, but is being tried in absentia since the death has not been confirmed.
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