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He was shot dead last week in Lyon, southern France, by an Orthodox priest near a Greek church: the attacker was the cheated husband, judicial sources said Saturday.
Two days after the Islamist assassination attempt in Nice, which claimed three lives, many feared another terror attack last Saturday after two shots were fired in Lyon against a 52-year-old Greek priest. Nikolaos Kakavelakist, when the city VII. He closed the church on Pere Chevrier street in the Pere Chevrier district around 4 pm The perpetrator, a 40-year-old Georgian, confessed his deed.
The husband of the woman who had an affair with the priest
Announced on Saturday Nicolas Jacquet a local prosecutor who also indicated that the terrorist act was definitively ruled out by the prosecution. The exact motive of the perpetrator and the course of the attack will be determined by the criminal police.
The priest was taken to the hospital in serious condition and wounded in the stomach. According to police sources, the man was shot up close, the shots hit the liver, he underwent surgery, woke up from anesthesia on Tuesday and based on his questioning, the police were able to arrest the alleged attacker at his home in Lyon on Friday night. .
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the Orthodox priest himself told investigators that the jealous husband may have been the attacker. The police also questioned his wife. The 30-year-old Russian woman confirmed that she had cheated on her husband with the priest. The newspaper knows that investigators found the rifle used to attack in the Saone River.
Following the attack, BFM news television was informed that the priest would leave his community a few days after his identity was questioned in the local Orthodox community. Therefore, the police, from the beginning, mainly examined whether grooming could be in the background, but did not rule out other assumptions.
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