A man shot a Greek Orthodox priest in front of a church in Lyon on Saturday, just days after three people were killed in a suspected terrorist attack at a basilica on the French Riviera.
The priest was seriously wounded and taken to a local hospital, French police officials said. The gunman remained on the loose, police said, as authorities locked down the area in central Lyon on Saturday afternoon and warned the public to stay away. The shooting rattled a nation that has been on high-alert following an appeal by a group affiliated with al Qaeda for Muslims to wage “individual jihad” against France. The terrorist group cited churches as a possible target, according to an interior ministry memo to police. On Thursday, a Tunisian man who entered France in October used a knife to kill three people—nearly decapitating one of them—at the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice. It was unclear whether French authorities were treating the assault in Lyon as a terrorist attack.
I’ve noticed that Christians are high target because they don’t carry any gun around and because we are not violent. That’s why they keep killing us anyhow.
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