If you listen to his neighbors in one sleepy little Normandy town that could be just about anywhere, Maxime Hauchard was nothing if not a good boy. For the postwoman, mouth agape learning the news, and the dismayed local grandmothers paraded unassuming and guileless before French news cameras and radio microphones all day Monday, it just couldn’t be.
But French authorities have confirmed that Hauchard, a 22-year-old French convert to Islam, is indeed one of the unmasked executioners in the so-called Islamic State’s latest gruesome massacre video.
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