40-year-old migrant Emmanuel Abayisenga, from Rwanda, has reportedly confessed to stabbing Father Olivier Maire to death in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, south of the city where he set the historic cathedral on fire last year.
All my support for the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of a priest in the Vendee region, said President Emmanuel Macron s interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, in comments shared on social media, adding that he was en route to the scene.
The killing has incensed national populist opposition leader Marine Le Pen, who lamented the fact that you can be an illegal migrant, set fire to a cathedral, not be expelled and then reoffend by murdering a priest in comments quoted by AFP.
