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| Police arrest Lyon church shooting suspect as mayor says motive ‘still unknown’ | |
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| French police have detained the alleged shooter who injured a Greek Orthodox priest using a hunting rifle in the city of Lyon on Saturday as he was locking the church. | |
| The suspect was detained at a diner in the city several hours after the incident. He was reportedly eating a kebab when police approached him, but didn’t have the sawn-off hunting rifle allegedly used in the attack. | |
| Local prosecutors have confirmed that a person matching the description of the shooter by witnesses has been placed in custody. He is undergoing checks for “his possible involvement” in the attack. | |
| Meanwhile, Lyon's mayor, Gregory Doucet, said that it was still unclear what had motivated the man to shoot the cleric. | |
| The Orthodox priest, whom the media identified as 52-year-old citizen of Greece, Nicolas K., was attacked when he was closing his church in Lyon’s Place Jean-Macé area at around 4pm local time. | |
| The cleric received two gunshot wounds to the abdomen and has been hospitalized in “life-threatening” condition. The perpetrator then fled the scene, prompting a manhunt. Sources told French paper Le Figaro that the priest and the shooter knew each other and previously had some sort of a dispute between them. | |
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