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A clergyman was injured in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon on Saturday afternoon.
As the broadcaster BFMTV reports, citing the local fire department, the Orthodox priest was critically injured.
According to initial reports, the attacker is on the run.
The incident is said to have occurred in rue Saint-Lazare in Lyon, not far from a Greek Orthodox church.
At the time of the crime, the priest is said to have been closing the church at around 4 p.m. when the perpetrator shot him.
Emergency services are on site, the crime scene has been cordoned off.
The authorities urge residents of the region to avoid the area.
Recently, a man in Nice in the south of France attacked several people with a knife, killing at least three.
The investigators assume a terrorist background.
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