Posted on 08/09/2021 8:21:22 AM PDT by ebb tide
PARIS, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A Rwandan immigrant walked into French police station on Monday and said he had murdered the Catholic priest giving him shelter while he awaited possible trial over a fire at a cathedral last year, official sources said.
The 40-year-old surrendered himself in the mid-morning, a source familiar with the investigation said. Shortly afterwards, police found the priest's body in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sevre, in the Vendee region.
"All my support to Catholics in our country after the dramatic killing of a priest in the Vendee. I'm headed there," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
The killing will raise pressure on President Emmanuel Macron over his security and immigration policy, eight months out from a presidential election that will see his biggest challenge come from the far-right.
France's immigration authorities handed the Rwandan national an expulsion order in 2019, but he remained in the country.
Prosecutors allege that a year later he set fire to Nantes cathedral. The July, 2020, blaze engulfed the inside of the 15th-century cathedral, destroying a grand organ, stained-glass windows and a painting.
"So in France you can be an illegal immigrant, torch Nantes cathedral, never be expelled and reoffend by murdering a priest. What's happening in our country is unprecedented: the total failure of the state," tweeted far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
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Ping
“You knew I was a snake!”
And they still think the fire at Notre Dame was an "accident"?
You think they would learn , this is not the first time it happened
Les batard miserable.
But Rwandans are so peaceful!
I seriously think that France is getting very close to the snapping point...and when they do snap, they don’t mess around.
I am torn between the scorpion and the frog scenario — and the suspicion that the priest was a queer and invited the Rwandan in for gay sex.
But that’s mainly because the local priest in our town was a queer and sheltered illegals in return for sex, so I have grave doubts about all of them now.
The old tale about the woman who takes in the snake comes to mind.
Prayers for France. I hope they stop this madness soon.
Of course it would have helped if France never had so many colonies full of Muslims, like Algeria.
It’s that damned “turn the other cheek” thing. That only works when the other person has the same Christian background. If they’re Muslim, it’s a sign of surrender. If you’re Muslim it’s okay to kill the enemy and the enemy is anyone who isn’t your brand of Muslim.
What is so “Far-Right” about LePen?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
CAMP OF THE SAINTS for real.
The Camp of the Saints is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail.
I suspect the problem stems from the fact that the French let themselves be guilted into letting the vermin into their country.
“Take me in, for Goodness’ sake.”
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