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Trial opens for failed Islamic State attack on French church

by Associated Press
| October 5, 2020 12:30 AM

LYON, France (AP) — A 29-year-old Algerian man went on trial in Paris Monday accused of killing a woman and trying to blow up a church near Paris, a failed 2015 attack that investigators say was orchestrated by Islamic State extremists in Syria.

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