Police identify 2nd church attacker

The second man who attacked a Normandy church during a morning Mass this week, slitting the throat of the elderly priest, is a 19-year-old Frenchman from eastern France, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday.

An official in the prosecutor's office said it was "very probable" that the man, identified as Abdel-Malik Nabil Petit Jean, was the same man pictured in a photo distributed to police services four days before the attack. The information accompanying the photo of an unidentified man said the person pictured "could be ready to participate in an attack on national territory".

UCLAT, an agency that coordinates the anti-terrorist fight, said it obtained the photo from a trusted source.