Kermiche was on electronic tag during the incident while he awaited trial on terror charges.
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“We tried to bring him to his senses”, his classmate Redwan said.
“But he would quote the Koran to us, saying France is the land of the unbelievers, and we should go to Syria and fight”, he continued.
According to The Guardian, Adel Kermiche, who was 19 years old, was jailed twice on suspicion of traveling to Syria to join ISIS. Authorities had been searching for him after he recently disappeared from his home in Aix-les-Bains in southeast France, officials said.
Air France said “a special concern about France as a destination”, as well as fuel price concerns, meant an uncertain year ahead.
Television station BFM-TV also said it will no longer broadcast images of attackers’ faces.
He was detained until March 18 when he was released under house arrest with an electronic monitoring tag. “These people are insane – they justify their actions with religion, but religion has nothing to do with it”. A micro-cell of recruits from the area included a Frenchman seen cutting the throat of a Syrian soldier in a November 2014 video.
Malik P.is believed to be from the town Aix-les-Bains in the Alps, while Kermiche is from Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy where the attack took place.
By the time Kermiche’s obsession with joining ISIS began, Hauchard had already been in Syria for almost 18 months, according to police.
Kermiche never made it that far.
A police official told The Associated Press that the bracelet was deactivated during those four hours, allowing Kermiche to leave the family home without raising alarms.
Here’s a voice the media aren’t promoting: Sister Danielle, the nun who slipped out during the terrorist attack on a church in France on Tuesday.
“I knew it was him”.
“The parents did everything to avoid this”.
Fatima, 58, an Algerian-born woman who said she had lived in the village for 40 years, joined the crowds in the main square to honor what she called “the memory of the priest”.
“We’re united in grief and tragedy for the victims”, she added.
President Francois Hollande met interfaith leaders in an effort to promote national unity.
“The world is at war because it has lost peace”, he said. “The jihadists’ aim is to provoke violent revenge attacks that will create a religious war in our country”, wrote the daily.
French religious leaders have called on the authorities to provide greater security at places of worship after extremists killed a priest in a Normandy church, as a violence-weary France struggled to come to terms with the latest attack just two weeks after the Bastille Day truck massacre in Nice.
After the talks, Paris Archbishop Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois urged Catholics not to “enter the game” of IS that “wants to set children of the same family in opposition to each other”.
Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur, rector of Paris’s Grand Mosque, expressed “profound sorrow” after the attack which he described as a “blasphemous sacrilege”. He did not elaborate.
The imam said he and the priest had talked several times at public events and noted they were working on an inter-faith panel discussing how different communities could work to get along. Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said 4,000 members of the Sentinel military force will patrol Paris, while 6,000 will patrol in the provinces.
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Once suspects pass from French police supervision into the country’s judicial system, he said, they are relatively unsupervised, as the French Justice Ministry lacks the security resources of the Interior Ministry.
