PARIS (CNS) A Paris court sentenced four men in connection with the 2016 killing of Father Jacques Hamel, giving them sentences ranging from eight years to life in prison.
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Fr. Jacques Hamel. / Diocese of Rouen, Wikipedia.Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA).Four men accused of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of the French Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel in 2016 were convicted on Wednesday."Justice is done," Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen said after the verdict on March 9. "[The court] has discerned the good from the bad as much as possible, it has judged and for the good of society, for the good of the men present in the dock."The trial against four people on charges of terrorist conspiracy in Hamel s murder began on Feb. 14. The 85-year-old priest was killed in a terrorist attack while he offered Mass in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in the northern French archdiocese of Rouen, on July 26, 2016.Four people were held hostage during the attack, which also left one elderly Massgoer seriously injured.The two 19-year-old men who stabbed Hamel and injured a second man were killed by police as they left