MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, two armed men took five people hostage at the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church in the Seine-Maritime commune. The attackers were later killed by law enforcement, while at least one hostage has died. The Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. Shortly following the attack, one of the assailants was identified as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche.
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The second attacker was Abdel Malik Petitjean, also 19, actively monitored by local police for some five days before the attack, according to the Tendance Ouest broadcaster.
Petitjean had not been previously convicted, so the authorities did not immediately have his fingerprints nor his DNA, which greatly delayed the formal identification, the broadcaster stressed, adding that the DNA samples of his mother helped reveal his identity.
