French church attacker: from troubled childhood to altar killer

By Michel Rose SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (Reuters) - Adel Kermiche was an attention-seeking child whose behavioral problems frequently led him to a psychiatric hospital and later a specialist school. Kermiche burst into a church on the outskirts of Rouen during morning mass on Tuesday with another teenage Islamic militant and killed the 85-year-old father at the altar, chanting in Arabic, before they were both shot dead by police. "All he would talk about was Syria." A judicial source sai