France was again startled by violence on Saturday. A Greek priest of an Orthodox church has been shot in Lyon. The perpetrator fled.
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The facts occurred around 4 p.m., when the priest was closing his church, police said. ‘He was attacked by a single man who shot him twice with a shotgun,’ a police source told the French newspaper Le Figaro. The victim was seriously injured, he was hit in the chest area. According to the news channel BFMTV, he is in mortal danger.
The area was cordoned off by the police, who are looking for the culprit.
On Thursday, Nice was rocked by a terror attack when the sexton and two churchgoers of the Notre-Dame Basilica were murdered by a 21-year-old Tunisian who had come to France quite recently. That same morning, a man in djellaba and armed with a knife was also arrested in Lyon. He would be known to the intelligence services as being radicalized.
