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Greek Orthodox priest Nicolas K., 52, was shot dead on Saturday, in Lyon, and the author of the attack with a rifle with the cut barrel managed to escape.
The tragic event comes after the knife attack on a basilica in Nice and the arrest of a man armed with a knife in Lyon on Thursday, a police source told Le Figaro.
The attack took place on Saturday, at 4:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. Romanian time), while the priest closed the Greek Orthodox Church “Bunavestirea”, in the 7th district of the city.
The priest “was attacked by a single man, who shot him twice,” the source said.
Police have installed a security perimeter in the area and are searching for the fugitive.
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A Greek Orthodox priest was shot in Lyon and is in critical condition
Lyon has been the scene of Turkish Muslim riots for the past week. pic.twitter.com/A5C9cLqB0L
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The life of the priest, aware of the arrival of the rescuers, is in danger. They shot him in the abdomen, writes news.ro ..
A crisis cell has been created in the French Interior Ministry, which is monitoring the progress of the case.
Prime Minister Jean Castex, who is in Rouen in Saint-Etienne du Rouvray, is returning to Paris, he announced. For now, the trail of a new terrorist attack was not marked.
A source close to the case told Le Figaro that it could be a dispute between a priest and a lay person who assaulted him.
#BREAK: Orthodox priest shot in a Greek church in #Lyon, Francepic.twitter.com/foITchEsb9
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France, bloodied by attacks
Another attack took place this week at a church.
Three people were killed in an attack on a church in Nice on Thursday. They were all stabbed in the neck. The parish priest was 55 years old and the two parishioners 44 and 60 years old, respectively. The first of them died of multiple injuries, in a nearby restaurant, shortly after fleeing the church through a side door, investigators said. According to the first elements of the investigation, Brahim Issaoui, a 21-year-old Tunisian is the main suspect, but the police are trying to find out if he had other accomplices, for which two other men were arrested with whom Brahim was seen in the days before the attack.
The Lyon attack also comes two weeks after Professor Samuel Paty was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen teenager, a refugee who had lived in France since the age of 6 and was shot and killed by police shortly after. crime.
The government has warned that more terrorist attacks could take place.
Authorities increased the number of soldiers deployed in Operation Sentinel from 3,000 to 7,000 to defend places of worship and schools after the attacks.
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