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Second Normandy attacker was on security register
Source: The Guardian
Second Normandy attacker was on security register
Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean was put on the security register less
than a month before the attack for attempting to travel to Syria
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thursday 28 July 2016 14.17 BST
French police were warned the second Normandy hostage-taker was planning an attack four days before the murder of a Catholic priest but were unable to identify him.
France’s security services said they had received an alert from abroad and a photograph of an individual – later identified as Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean – but had no idea of his name or where and when he would strike. As a result, they were unable to link him to the photograph of the 19-year-old from Aix-les-Bains in the Savoie region of eastern France who was put on the Fiche S (S List) security register less than a month ago for attempting to travel to Syria, but had no criminal record.
France’s intelligence services claimed the Turkish authorities, who picked up Petitjean on his way to Syria, did not inform them of his arrest for 15 days, by which time, unknown to them, he had slipped through the net and already returned to France.
About 10,000 people in France are on the S List, most of them alleged religious extremists, but officials say it is impossible to keep a close eye on each one.
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Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean was put on the security register less
than a month before the attack for attempting to travel to Syria
Kim Willsher in Paris
Thursday 28 July 2016 14.17 BST
French police were warned the second Normandy hostage-taker was planning an attack four days before the murder of a Catholic priest but were unable to identify him.
France’s security services said they had received an alert from abroad and a photograph of an individual – later identified as Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean – but had no idea of his name or where and when he would strike. As a result, they were unable to link him to the photograph of the 19-year-old from Aix-les-Bains in the Savoie region of eastern France who was put on the Fiche S (S List) security register less than a month ago for attempting to travel to Syria, but had no criminal record.
France’s intelligence services claimed the Turkish authorities, who picked up Petitjean on his way to Syria, did not inform them of his arrest for 15 days, by which time, unknown to them, he had slipped through the net and already returned to France.
About 10,000 people in France are on the S List, most of them alleged religious extremists, but officials say it is impossible to keep a close eye on each one.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/second-normandy-attacker-was-on-security-register
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Source: BBC
France church attack: Second suspect in priest killing named
28 July 2016 Europe
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean.
Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services.
The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where they had killed Father Jacques Hamel, 86, and taken hostages.
So-called Islamic State (IS) released a video of what it said were the two men pledging allegiance to the group.
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28 July 2016 Europe
French prosecutors have identified the second man involved in the killing of a priest in a Normandy church on Tuesday as 19-year-old Abdel Malik Petitjean.
Like the other attacker, Adel Kermiche, he was known to the security services.
The teenagers were shot dead by police outside the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray where they had killed Father Jacques Hamel, 86, and taken hostages.
So-called Islamic State (IS) released a video of what it said were the two men pledging allegiance to the group.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36911766
