A priest would have been assassinated in Vendée, according to Gérald Darmanin. In a tweet, the Minister of the Interior indicated to bring “all his support to the Catholics of our country after the dramatic assassination of a priest in Vendée. I go there. “
“A man presented himself in the middle of the morning to the gendarmerie brigade of Mortagne-sur-Sèvre and said to have killed a clergyman”, specified a source close to the file. The man had been placed under judicial supervision as part of the investigation into the fire at Nantes cathedral in July 2020, said this source.
According to our information, the victim is a priest belonging to the congregation of the Montfort Missionaries based in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre (Vendée), a town bordering Mortagne-sur-Sèvre where the suspect presented himself to the gendarmerie.
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Gérald Darmanin also castigated remarks by Marine Le Pen concerning the death of the ecclesiastical representative. “What indignity! Rather than expressing her compassion to the Catholics who welcomed this murderer, Ms. Le Pen argues without knowing the facts: this foreigner was not deportable despite his deportation order as long as his judicial control was not lifted. “
A little earlier, the finalist of the 2017 presidential election had also cracked a tweet: “In France, one can therefore be clandestine, set fire to the Nantes cathedral, never be expelled, and reoffend by murdering a priest. What is happening in our country is of unprecedented gravity: it is the complete bankruptcy of the State and of Gerald Darmanin. “