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• Nikolaos Kakavelakis, 52, was shot dead from his church in Lyon on October 31.
• Initially, it was feared that he would be the youngest victim of Islamic terrorism in France.
• But Father Kakavelakis has now woken up from his coma and has revealed his killer.
• He says he was shot dead by a husband whose wife slept with the priest

A priest who was shot twice outside his Greek Orthodox church in Lyon was the victim of an angry man with whom he slept.

Nikolaos Kakavelakis, 52, and father of two, initially feared he was the youngest victim of Islamic terrorism in France after being attacked with a sawed-off shotgun on October 31.

But Father Kakavelakis came out of the coma and told investigators that the man who tried to kill him was a love rival.

Please pray for Prayers for Father Nikolaos Kakavelakis who is still in “Critical Condition”

The Greek Orthodox Priest is fighting for his life after being shot outside of his church in Lyon, France by another terrorist.

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Nicolas Jacquet

Lyon prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet said in a statement released Saturday that the attacker “appears to be the husband of a woman who had an affair with the victim”.

The attacker was only identified as a 40-year-old Georgian who lives near the Greek Orthodox Church in Lyon’s 7th arrondissement.

He admitted shooting and killing Father Kakavelakis when he closed his church and then left the priest for dead.

The suspect ran home thinking he could get away with it until Father Kakavelakis miraculously recovered.

The suspect was arrested at his home on Friday and has now made a “full confession,” said Jacquet. At the same time, his wife was arrested, he added.

Father Kakavelakis, a Greek citizen who had been a priest in Lyon for ten years, had resigned from that office a month ago and was working on a resignation.

The attack on him came two days after the death of three people in the Roman Catholic basilica Notre-Dame in the city of Nice in southern France.

A Tunisian terrorist linked to radical Islamism committed the crimes and was shot 14 times by police before being arrested.

Last month, a schoolteacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a Chechnya-born terrorist after showing drawings of the Prophet Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo to a class of school-age children as part of a “Freedom of Movement” lesson. ‘Expression”. .

This led many to believe that the Lyon attack could be linked to terrorism, but now the French authorities have ruled that out.

Jean Castex

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said his government was determined to “allow each of them to practice their religion in safety and freedom”.

Following the attack on Lyon, the diocese of the Greek Orthodox Saint of France issued a statement in which he said: “We pray for a speedy recovery and clearly condemn all forms of violence.”