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Church aassailant spoke of 'knife carnage' weeks before attack

Adel Kermiche, 19, used encrypted messaging service Telegram to tell fellow jihadists 'You take a knife, you go to a church, you make carnage'.

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One of the Islamic State priest-killers coldly boasted of his plan to cause “carnage” at a church on a messaging service popular with jihadists in the weeks before the attack, it emerged on Thursday, reports The Telegraph. “You take a knife, you go to a church, you make carnage, bam!”

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