Prime Minister Jean Castex learnt of the Lyon shooting while visiting a church in Normandy attacked by terrorists Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean in 2016. Priest Jacques Hamel was killed in the incident.
Castex said he was returning to Paris immediately for crisis meetings.
“Our determination will not weaken,” he said.
The incident in Lyon, a city of about 500,000 people in south west France, occurred a day after a senior government minister warned citizens to brace for more attacks.
The country was already on high alert following the beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty in Paris…
