A source close to the investigation said Petitjean was not known to French security services until a tip-off from Turkish authorities. A woman places flowers to pay tribute to French priest Father Jacques Hamel outside the parish church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, France, July 28, 2016. Police had been hunting the second teenager who killed a priest in a church in France this week after a foreign intelligence tip-off that a suspected jihadist might be preparing an attack, police and judicial sources said. But in the time it took security agencies in Turkey, a well-trodden entry point into Syria for foreign militants, to notify France, Petitjean had returned. They stormed a church service, forced a 85-year-old Roman Catholic priest to his knees at the altar and slit his throat.

Source: Thanhnien News July 28, 2016 18:56 UTC