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French Muslim leader says church attacker on police radar
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA local Muslim leader says one of the men who attacked a Normandy church was on French police radar and had traveled to Turkey.
Mohammed Karabila, president of the Regional Council of the Muslim Faith for Haute-Normandie and head of the local Muslim cultural center, says that “the person that did this odious act is known, and he has been followed by the police for at least a year and a half.”
He says the attacker “went to Turkey and security services were alerted after this.”
Karabila says he hopes that interfaith dialogue in his region will not be damaged due to the assault claimed by Islamic State, in which the attackers slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest before being killed by police.
— AP
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