One of murderers of the French priest was on terrorist watch list
DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. July 26, 2016, 4:36 PM (IDT)
One of the two knifemen who took five hostages, including two nuns, at the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray,church in Normandy Tuesday and cut the throat of the local priest, was on a terror watch list and out of jail for a few hours with an electronic tag. Last year, he tried to travel to Syria and was stopped. ISIS recently called on its followers in France to attack churches. This was the first time that a Christian religious site was attacked by jihadists in Europe.
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