ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Catholic Church in France

Two terrorist carried out a vicious attack on a Catholic Church, slitting the throat of an elderly priest and taking 4 hostages.

Police surrounded the church and shot dead both hostage-takers. French media named one of them as Adel K.

One of the hostages is in a critical condition in hospital.

A nun who manages to escape told a CNN affiliate that the attackers filmed the grisly murder. The attackers claimed that they were acting on behalf of ISIS.

According to CNN, " SIS listed French churches as targets in the fifth issue of its French language magazine which came out last summer "to create fear in their hearts."
"In April 2015 French police thwarted an ISIS directed plot to attack a church in Villejuif in the Paris area after the operative recruited to launch the attack -- Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian student in Paris -- accidently shot himself in the leg. Ghlam had twice traveled to Turkey where he met French ISIS operatives linked to Fabien Clain, a senior French ISIS member who later is believed to have helped mastermind the November 2015 Paris attacks.

"In urging attacks on churches, ISIS is trying to eliminate what it calls the "grey zone" for Muslims in the West by provoking a far-right backlash. A drumbeat of attacks in France has led to a groundswell of anti-Muslim anger, which is being stoked and exploited by far-right politicians."

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