{"id":1370963,"date":"2022-03-11T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370963"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:06:13","slug":"four-jailed-over-islamist-killing-of-french-catholic-priest-during-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-jailed-over-islamist-killing-of-french-catholic-priest-during-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Jailed Over Islamist Killing of French Catholic Priest During Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Four men have been sentenced over the terror killing of a Catholic Priest in France, an attack that was perpetrated by self-described Islamic State members.<\/p>\n<p>Sentences between seven years and life in prison have been handed down to four men in relation to the Islamic terror killing of French Priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered at the foot of his church\u2019s altar while celebrating mass.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/04\/martyred-priests-last-words-jihadists-gone-satan\/\">brutal killing<\/a> \u2014 which saw the 85-year old have his throat slit while worshippers were taken hostage \u2014 occurred only weeks after a Tunisian drove a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/24\/alleged-accomplice-of-nice-truck-attack-islamic-terrorist-found-in-italy\/\">truck<\/a> through a crowd of French civilians celebrating Bastille Day in 2016, an attack that killed 86 people.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/french-court-convicts-associates-jihadists-who-killed-catholic-priest-2022-03-09\/\">report<\/a> by\u00a0Reuters, none of the men sentenced on Wednesday had been present during the attack, but all were found to have some involvement with the two terrorist killers \u2014 both of whom claimed membership of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the defendants were handed down sentences ranging from eight to 13 years, with the fourth man \u2014 who is assumed to have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/priest-murder-islamic-state-convicted-trial-latest\">killed<\/a> in a drone strike in Iraq in 2017 \u2014 being sentenced in absentia to life in prison for sponsoring the attack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dominique Lebrun, who serves as Archbishop of Rouen, reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/priest-murder-islamic-state-convicted-trial-latest\">praised<\/a> the trial\u2019s result, as well as its unusual feeling of \u201cspirituality\u201d, with some of the injured parties publicly forgiving the convicted men during the court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice was served,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> reports the Archbishop of the now-deceased priest as saying.\u00a0\u201c\u2026[the court] had to convict these men for the good of society.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macron Unveils \u2018Forum of Islam\u2019 to Counter Extremism in France<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oAeRQbwQbs\">https:\/\/t.co\/oAeRQbwQbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1490309305765036033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The issue of Islamic terror \u2014 along with the apparently concomitant issues of immigration and national identity \u2014 has reached the fore of French politics, with the ongoing presidential race seeing candidates on the populist right making great strides in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/france\/\">opinion polls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Marine Le Pen of\u00a0Rassemblement National and Eric Zemmour of\u00a0Reconqu\u00eate have taken hardline stances against Islamic extremism, with Le Pen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-interior-minister-gerald-darmanin-and-marine-le-pen-spar-over-how-to-fight-radical-islam\/\">suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that religious headscarves be banned from public places, while Zemmour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/15\/my-duty-was-to-save-france-from-the-great-replacement-zemmour-says-france-could-be-lebanon-in-5-10-years\/\">warned<\/a> that France would become a \u201clarge Lebanon\u201d by 2050 if nothing changes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>More centrist candidates have also changed their approaches to dealing with more populist issues, with French Republican candidate\u00a0Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse being accused of courting voters to her right after she made reference to the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory in a campaign speech.<\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s government has also since taken a much more hardline position when it comes to fundamentalist Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials now routinely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/french-mosque-forced-closed-for-inciting-hatred-and-advocating-jihad\/\">shutter<\/a> mosques for preaching extremist ideology in the country, while the President himself has revealed a \u201cForum of Islam\u201d aimed at reshaping the religion as it exists in the Fifth Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Macron administration has also seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/28\/muslim-groups-to-sign-french-islam-values-charter-after-months-of-resistance\/\">strong-armed<\/a> a number of Islamic groups in the country into signing a French government charter that involves them renouncing political Islam, while also committing to end what it describes as foreign involvement in French Muslim life.<\/p>\n<p>Critics however have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/french-mosque-forced-closed-for-inciting-hatred-and-advocating-jihad\/\">warned<\/a> that the document contains within it definitions of terms which are \u201cproblematic\u201d, and risk criminalising \u201creligious practices that are part of the common foundation of Islam and which are guaranteed by the 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