Two knifeman who murdered priest ‘swear allegiance to ISIS’ in video

ISIS has released a video it claims shows the two knifemen who murdered a French priest swearing allegiance to the terror group.
Abdel Malik and Adel Kermiche forced Father Jacques Hammel to kneel at the altar before they slit his
throat in attack during Mass on Tuesday.
The pair also stabbed an elderly man four times after making him video the slaughter but were killed by armed police when they tried to escape the church using hostages as human shields.
The Amaq news agency, which is linked to ISIS, has released a video they say shows the two together as the pledge allegiance to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Father Jacques Hammel was murdered during mass yesterday (Picture: REUTERS)

In it the two men, call themselves noms de guerre Abu Omar and Abu Jalil al-Hanfai.
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.
French police are yet to release Abdel Malik’s full surname yet.
Kermiche was on electronic tag during the incident while he awaited trial on terror charges.
His mother revealed her son was once a sports-mad teenager who liked the Simpsons and Rihanna.