PARIS: police have identified the Second assailant who attacked a church in **rthern France this week as a 19-year-old k**wn to security services as suspected of having Islamist militant links, sources said on Thursday.
Police identified the man as Abdel-Malik Nabil Petitjean from a town in eastern France on the border with Germany, a judicial source told Reuters.
Security services had in June opened a special file on Petitjean for becoming radicalised, a police source said separately. The government has said there are about 10,500 such people in France.
Petitjean and an already identified accomplice, Adel Kermiche, took hostages at a church in **rmandy on Tuesday before slitting the threat of an elderly priest at the altar.
07-28-2016, 02:41 PM
Second French church attacker was k**wn to police - source
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