GETTY Muslim worshippers observe a minute of silence in front of the Saint Etienne church

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Adel Kermiche and Abdelmalik Petitjean will not be given a Muslim burial by locals who say they do not want to "taint" Islam. Both men who entered the Normandy church acted in accordance as they slit 84-year old priest Fr Jacques Hamel's throat on the altar while he was conducting morning mass. Now furious locals are turning their backs on the men.

GETTY Mohammed Karabila, imam of one of the town's mosques

Mohammed Karabila, imam of one of the town's mosques, told Le Parisien: "We're not going to taint Islam with this person. "We won't participate in preparing the body or the burial." And two of the nuns who were held hostage have now spoken for the first time of the terror attack and revealed the men were smiling as they committed the murder.

GETTY Father Jacques was murdered as he held mass

The pair who were both 19, invaded the 17th-century church on 26 July killing Father Hamel and wounding a member of the congregation. Sister Huguette Peron told Catholic newspaper La Vie: "I got a smile from the second (man). "Not a smile of triumph, but a soft smile, that of someone who is happy." The people of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray have united in their revulsion at the act. "What this young man did was sinful, he is no longer part of our community," said local man Khalid El Amrani.

GETTY Tributes have been offered to Father Jaques who was brutally murdered