RIRI FAN TO RADICAL IN 3 MONTHS!
Tell how normal teen became an Isis fanatic Paris horror turned him on to terror
TERROR teen Adel Kermiche went from Rihanna-mad ladies’ man to priest-killing monster in just three months.
Security services probing the 19-yearold’s brutal knife slaying of Father Jacques Hamel, 85, at morning mass have been stunned by his rapid descent into Islamic extremism.
Kermiche and accomplice Abdelmalik Petitjean, 19, were shot dead by French police after forcing the Catholic clergyman to kneel at the altar before slitting his throat.
It was an apparent bid to behead him as his congregation and two nuns watched on in horror.
One 87-year-old worshipper was forced to film the bloodbath on a mobile phone before he, too, was stabbed.
Shields
The victim’s wife Jeanine said the killers told her and two nuns who were taken hostage that they would be spared but the men “had to die”.
Her husband survived by playing dead on the church floor.
The jihadists tried to use the nuns as human shields as they left the church but they were shot by police marksmen.
This latest atrocity in Saint-Etiennedu-Rouvray in Normandy drew worldwide condemnation from politicians and religious leaders of all faiths.
Last night churches in the UK were put on terror alert after warnings that Isis – who claimed responsibility – now say they plan to target the UK.
Investigators examining Kermiche’s role have been shocked by the speed of his conversion from typical teen to terrorist.
He used to be a sports-mad fan of raunchy pop princess Rihanna and was hooked on US cartoon series The Simpsons.
A childhood pal called Bodri, 22, said Kermiche wanted to be a model and loved to “flirt with the ladies”. He was pictured in a T-shirt bearing the slogan “I know HTML – How To Meet Ladies”.
The pal added: “We had the same taste in urban music.’’
Kermiche’s carefree attitude to life apparently changed in January last year after the terrorist gun massacre at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which left 12 dead.
His mother said he started going to a mosque more often and began lecturing her on her conduct.
She said: “He said that one couldn’t exercise one’s religion peacefully in France. He spoke with words that were not his. He was bewitched.’’
His family have been stunned to find he had Facebook accounts full of radical chats with fellow extremists worldwide.
Last March Kermiche set off for Syria but his bid to join Isis was stopped in Munich where he was detained by German police who sent him back to France.
Two months later he tried again using his cousin’s ID but was intercepted in Turkey. He was later found to have helped a 16-year-old join IS.
Kermiche, whose four siblings include a doctor, served jail time in France and Switzerland and his movements were being monitored by an electronic tag when he killed the priest.
Police were last night probing the background of his accomplice Petitjean who lived in Aix-les-Bains in the French Alps.