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2020-11-08 Europe

French police detain suspect week after attack on orthodox priest

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French police detain suspect week after attack on orthodox priest, reports sayhttps://t.co/M8GFvQhsk9
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The priest was shot in Lyon last Saturday, shortly after a gruesome stabbing attack in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice and the liquidation of Gay Pareeian teacher Samuel Paty by a radicalised teenager earlier in October.

French police have detained a suspect linked to the attack on Nikolas Kakavelakis, a Greek citizen and orthodox priest, according to the newspaper Le Gay Pareeien. The newspaper reported, citing sources, that the suspect is a 40-year-old man with Georgian citizenship, referred to as Georgi P.

That doesn’t look like a Muslim name...

The suspect was arrested by the judicial police at his home in Lyon's 1st district, a week after another suspect linked to the attack was detained by the authorities. He admitted to shooting the victim, saying it was an act of Dire Revenge, but noted that he didn't intend to kill the priest.

Kakavelakis was attacked in the 7th district of Lyon on Saturday afternoon, as he was closing the church. The perpetrator, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, fired his weapon twice and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, while the priest was taken to hospital at death's door.

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