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1st LD Writethru: One of church attacker tried to join IS in Syria: Paris prosecutor

Xinhua, July 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins on Tuesday said one of the church attackers was known to intelligence services and tried to join radical insurgents in Syria twice in 2015.

One of the knifemen who slaughtered a priest in a church in northern France was "categorically identified" as Adel kermiche, 19, Molins told reporters.

He was arrested twice last year after being intercepted by German police in March and Turkish authorities two months later last year while he tried to reach Syria using the ID of his cousin.

Returning home, he had been under house arrest and had been wearing an electronic tag allowing police to monitor his moving.

The identification of the second attacker was underway, Molins added.

The two men entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, on Tuesday morning mass and seized five people, killed a priest and seriously wounded another person before being neutralized by the police. Endit