ISIS Supporters Kill 84-Year-Old Priest in France Church Attack

French people “should know that they are threatened, but they are not the only country,” France’s president said.

In this grab made from video, police officers speak to a driver as they close off a road during a hostage situation in Normandy, France, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Two attackers seized hostages in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen on Tuesday, killing one hostage by slitting their throat before being killed by police, a security official said. The identities of the attackers and motive for the attack are unclear, according to the official, who was not authorized to be publicly named. BFM via AP

The ISIS terrorist group has confirmed two members loyal to the group carried out an attack on a church in the northern French town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, killing a priest and seriously wounding another.

Via its Amaq information site, ISIS said “two soldiers” of the group carried out the attack in Normandy, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements posted by the terrorist group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq.

President Francois Hollande on Tuesday said that “we are at war against Daesh, using an alternate name for ISIS, reported Le Monde. Hollande confirmed it was a terrorist attack and a “cowardly murder.”