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ROUEN (ChurchMilitant.com) - In the case of the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel on Tuesday, authorities have found that the mosque the Islamic murderer was attending was built on land donated by the parish that was attacked.

On Tuesday morning, two terrorists entered the Catholic church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray while the 86-year-old priest was saying Mass. The two Islamic terrorists forced Fr. Hamel to kneel, and then slit his throat in front of Mass attendees. The terrorists then took several people hostage, including two nuns. The Islamic terrorists were later shot dead by police.

Now reports say the mosque the extremists were attending was built on land donated by the parish attacked on Tuesday.

The Yahia mosque of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray was inaugurated in 2000, and since then, reports from France have called the small Normandy town the "anchor of the Jihadist network."

The Salafist (extremist) mosque on property donated by Fr. Hamel's church had also gained notoriety for being the "spiritual home" of many known Islamic terrorists.

In 2014, Police arrested three young people for attempting to flee to Syria to join ISIS in the nearby town of Saint-Pierre-les-Elbeuf. However, a fourth young person, a 22-year-old identified only as Jordan, managed to escape to Syria where he reportedly joined ISIS forces.

One of the Islamic terrorists of Tuesday's attack was 18-year-old Adel Kermiche.

Kermiche was known by counterterrorism services following an aborted trip to Syria. The Algerian-born boy was imprisoned in France before being placed under house arrest, wearing an electronic bracelet. He was, however, allowed to roam freely Tuesday morning without being monitored, and it was that time when he carried out his attack.

French President François Hollande has announced the extension of a state of emergency that was put into place following a large number of people, around 130, being killed in shootings and bombings in Paris last November.

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