'No Islamist link seen in French missionary home murder'

Investigators probing the murder of a worker at a Christian missionary retirement home in southern France do not believe the killing was intended as a terror attack, a prosecutor said today.

The death set nerves jangling in France late Thursday after a string of jihadist atrocities, but local prosecutor Christophe Barret said police believed it was a "local" crime, not "Islamist terrorism".