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| France church attack: Second suspect in priest killing named | |
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| French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church as Abdel Malik Petitjean, 19, media say. | |
| The other attacker had earlier been named as Adel Kermiche, also 19. | |
| The pair were shot dead on Tuesday outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where they had killed Fr Jacques Hamel, 86, and taken hostages. | |
| So-called Islamic State released a video of what it says are the two men pledging allegiance to the group. | |
| "Following DNA tests, it emerged that the terrorist has been identified as Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean," a source in the Paris prosecutor's office was quoted as saying by French media. | |
| Petitjean, from eastern France, had been on a radicals' watch list. Police had been looking for him for several days before the attack. |