French church attackers also have their friend detained in France, still in France

Source : ABC

As reported by the ABC News, the unnamed boy who was detained two days before the church attacked in France that killed a Priest. It was said the two whose name appeared as an identified killers were his friend. The unnamed young man is known in his area as “an internet lover”

The news of the detention of a close friend of Kermiche, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video, comes at a time when French intelligence services are under close scrutiny.

Reports in Le Parisien and the Tribune de Geneve newspapers said it was not known why the 17-year-old, from northern France, went to Geneva earlier this month.

He had already tried to fly with Kermiche to Syria via Switzerland last year. Both were turned back from Turkey.

In the latest development, Swiss security services picked up the teenager, and another friend, on 20 July and handed them over to French authorities.

A source told AFP news agency that "nothing suggests he was in any way implicated" in the church attack on 26 July.

After trying to leave to Syria, Kermiche was released with a monitoring tag earlier this year, despite prosecutors' call for his continued detention.

Kermiche and the other attacker, Abdel Malik Petitjean, were shot dead by police outside the church in St-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

They had slit the throat of Fr Hamel, 86, and taken hostages during Mass

SOURCE:ABC NEWS