Could the murder of Father Hamel have been prevented? This question cannot be answered, but the errors of the secret services are at the heart of the trial taking place before the Special Jury Court in Paris. Nevertheless, the five agents of these services do not plan to appear at the hearing.
These anti-terror police officers were monitoring the social networks. A week before the attack, they had tracked down hate messages and identified the author: Adel Kermiche, who was under electronic ankle bracelet at his home in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Seine-Maritime). On 19 July, he had posted: “You take a knife, you go to a church, you make a bloodbath”, but the police officers had not informed the DGSI, the Central Intelligence Service. The presiding judge of the jury court must decide whether to force the five policemen to testify. Franceinfo
(…) Especially on his Telegram channel called “Haqq-Wad’Dalil”, which he had started on June 11, 2016. A few days before the attack, on July 21, an officer of the DRPP (Direction du renseignement de la préfecture de police de Paris) came across Adel Kermiche’s channel, on which he posted 118 photos, three videos, 89 voice messages… In response to a question from an internet user, he had replied: …] If I personally had the opportunity to carry out an assassination, i.e. weapons, the whole shebang, the whole shebang, to be honest, you have to catch such an opportunity immediately…. Ouest-France