410A Thursday, July 28, 2016 Church attacker nurtured > _ jihad in quiet French town fiaST ‘ By LORI HINNANT The Associated Press SAINT-ETIENNE-DUROUVRAY, France — Adel Kermiche nursed his obsession with jihad in this quiet French town alongside the Seine River, and his twice-thwarted attempt to join Islamic State extremists in Syria ended with an attack on an elderly priest celebrating Mass in its sturdy stone church. | _ New details emerged Wednesday about the 19"Y year-old, one of two assail-. : 7 Caer Near ak Chote ants who took five hostages _ A picture of late Father Jacques Hamel is placed on flowers Tuesday at the church in Wednesday at the makeshift memorial in front of the city hall Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, — close to the church where a priest was slain the day before in slitting the throat of the 85- Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, France. year-old priest, the Rev. Jacques Hamel, before being shot to death by police. last year after her son was detained and returned to ance, in a Twitter post af- by the Islamic State group, which released a video Wednesday allegedly sh France’after trying to make it to Syria. idthe family, who ter the November attacks in Paris, wasathreat against next month’s Rio de The attack was claimed cent propaganda appear-