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| France church attack: Second suspect in priest killing named | 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 on Tuesday as Abdel Malik Petitjean, 19. | |
| The other attacker had earlier been named as Adel Kermiche, also 19. | The other attacker had earlier been named as Adel Kermiche, also 19. |
| The pair were shot dead by police 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 said were 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 said. | |
| Petitjean, from eastern France, had been on a radicals' watch list. Police had been looking for him for several days before the attack. | Petitjean, from eastern France, had been on a radicals' watch list. Police had been looking for him for several days before the attack. |
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| An ID card belonging to Petitjean had been found in Kermiche's house but DNA tests were required because his body was so badly disfigured in the police shooting it was impossible to be sure it was him. | |
| The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says it has been reported that Petitjean was the subject of a tip-off received by the French authorities last Friday from an unnamed foreign intelligence agency. The tip-off spoke of a man, whose photograph but not identity was supplied, preparing an attack in the coming days. | |
| Kermiche was being monitored by police and had been wearing a surveillance tag at the time of the attack. | |
| He was arrested twice last year trying to reach Syria. | |
| The two attackers stormed the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen, during morning Mass. | |
| They slit the throat of the elderly priest before being killed by police. | |
| One of four people taken hostage - said to be an elderly parishioner - suffered severe knife wounds. | |
| Prosecutor Francois Molins said the attackers had been carrying a "fake explosive device covered in aluminium foil" along with hand-held weapons when they entered the Catholic church. |